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Acids in wine
Acids in wine: organic acids, chiefly tartaric and malic from grapes plus lactic, acetic, citric, and succinic, that govern pH, titratable acidity, taste, stability, and malolactic fermentation management.
Acne Studios
Acne Studios, Swedish fashion house founded in Stockholm in 1996 by Jonny Johansson; launched with 100 pairs of red-stitched raw denim in 1997, now a Paris-showing modern luxury label with 41% owned by IDG Capital and IT Group since 2018.
Acquired taste
Acquired taste: an appreciation for a food or drink unlikely to be enjoyed without substantial exposure, such as coffee or broccoli. Learned mainly through repeated exposure, flavor conditioning, and social influence, not genes.
Acrylic fiber
Acrylic fiber, also called polyacrylonitrile (PAN) fiber, is a synthetic textile fiber of at least 85% acrylonitrile units, first commercialized by DuPont as Orlon, used as a wool-like warm fiber and carbon fiber precursor.
Adam Liaw
Adam Liaw is an Australian cook, writer and broadcaster, winner of MasterChef Australia season 2 (2010) and host of SBS's Destination Flavour and The Cook Up; former Disney lawyer in Tokyo, author of nine cookbooks and co-Managing Director of i8 Studio.
Adam Richman
Adam Richman (born 1974, Brooklyn, NY) is an American TV host and author, original host of Travel Channel's Man v. Food (2008–2012) and later The Food That Built America, Modern Marvels, and Secret Eats.
Adelle Lutz
Adelle Lutz (born 1948) is an American artist, designer, and actress whose costume design treats clothing as communication, with credits in film and experimental theater.
Adhesive bandage
Adhesive bandage (sticking plaster; BAND-AID brand): a small sterile dressing of adhesive-coated strip with absorbent pad for minor wounds, invented 1921 by Earle Dickson at Johnson & Johnson; over 100 billion made.
Adidas
Adidas (adidas AG), German sportswear company founded by Adi Dassler, registered 1949 in Herzogenaurach; known for the 3-Stripes, Samba, Telstar ball, Trefoil logo, and 2025 net sales of €24,811 million.
Adidas Originals
Adidas Originals is adidas's lifestyle brand, founded 2001, marked by the Trefoil logo (introduced 1972, reserved for Originals since 2000). It reissues heritage shoes like the Samba, Superstar, and Stan Smith for streetwear.
Adidas Superstar
The Adidas Superstar is a low-top leather sneaker with a rubber shell toe, introduced by adidas in 1970 as a basketball shoe and adopted by hip-hop culture.
Adinkra cloth
Adinkra cloth is a stamped textile made by the Asante people of Ghana, whose carved symbols carry meanings drawn from proverbs and are traditionally used for mourning.
Adinkra stamps
Adinkra stamps are hand-carved calabash printing blocks used to press symbolic Adinkra motifs onto cloth in the Akan adinkra tradition of Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire.
Adire eleko
Adire eleko (àdìrẹ ẹlẹ́kọ) is a Yoruba resist-dyed indigo cloth from south-western Nigeria, first made around 1910 in Lagos and Abeokuta by painting cassava-flour paste onto cotton.
Aditi Arya (अदिति आर्या)
Aditi Arya (अदिति आर्या, born 1993, Chandigarh) is an Indian model, actress, and Femina Miss India World 2015 who represented India at Miss World 2015, acted in Ism and 83, earned a Yale MBA, and married Jay Kotak.
Aditi Govitrikar (अदिति गोवित्रिकर)
Aditi Govitrikar (अदिति गोवित्रिकर), Indian physician, psychologist, and actor from Panvel; first Indian woman crowned Mrs World (2001, Las Vegas); founder of Marvelous Mrs India pageant for married women.
ADM (company)
ADM (Archer-Daniels-Midland Company), NYSE: ADM, is a Chicago-based agricultural processor and nutrition company founded in 1902 as Daniels Linseed Co., operating Ag Services and Oilseeds, Carbohydrate Solutions, and Nutrition segments worldwide.
Adobada
Adobada (also spelled adovada) is Mexican and Southwestern pork marinated in a red chile-and-vinegar adobo, griddled for tacos or braised as New Mexican carne adovada; a northern cousin of al pastor without the pineapple.
Adobo
Adobo is the unofficial national dish of the Philippines and a cooking method: meat braised in vinegar, soy sauce or salt, garlic, and peppercorns. Distinct from Spanish and Mexican adobo despite the shared Spanish name.
Adolf Dassler
Adolf "Adi" Dassler (1900–1978), German shoemaker and founder of adidas, first built sports shoes with brother Rudolf in 1920s Herzogenaurach; after their 1948 split he founded adidas and Rudolf founded Puma.
Adolph Coors
Adolph Coors (Adolph Herrman Kohrs, 1847-1929) was the Prussian-born founder of the Golden Brewery in Golden, Colorado, established with Jacob Schueler in 1873; his company survived Prohibition on malted milk and porcelain, becoming Coors Brewing and CoorsTek.
Adriano Zumbo
Adriano Zumbo, the Sweet Assassin or Patissier of Pain, is an Australian pâtissier from Coonamble known for the V8 cake, Zumbarons, MasterChef pressure tests, Zumbo's Just Desserts, Netflix's Sugar Rush, and his 2018 voluntary administration.
Adulterant
An adulterant is a substance secretly added to food or other products to cheapen production or fake value; economically motivated adulteration (EMA) is its deliberate form, driving food fraud costing $10–$40 billion yearly.
Advent calendar
Advent calendar: a 24-door countdown device opened December 1-24, originating with 19th-century German Protestants; first printed commercially by Gerhard Lang in 1908, revived postwar by Richard Sellmer, now a mass market in chocolate, beauty, and toys.
Advocaat
Advocaat (advocatenborrel) is a Dutch egg liqueur of egg yolk, sugar, and brandy; EU law requires at least 14% ABV, 140 g/L egg yolk, and 150 g/L sugar, distinguishing it from thinner liqueur with egg.
Adwoa Aboah
Adwoa Aboah: British model, activist, and entrepreneur, founder of mental-health platform Gurls Talk (2015), British Fashion Council Model of the Year 2017, Enninful's first British Vogue cover, and founder of the bag brand The Veil.
Æbleskiver
Æbleskiver (aebleskiver, ebelskiver) are Danish round pancake puffs fried in a seven-well cast-iron pan, served with powdered sugar, jam, and gløgg at Christmas. Named "apple slices" after the original apple-filled medieval version; oldest printed recipe 1703.
Aegyo
Aegyo (애교, 愛嬌) is Korean performed cuteness: babyish voice, pouting, and gestures used to charm or persuade, common among couples, families, and K-pop idols, with documented vowel-shift acoustics.
AeroPress
AeroPress: manual coffee brewer invented by engineer Alan Adler, introduced at Coffee Fest Seattle in November 2005. Combines immersion, paper micro-filtration, and plunger-driven air pressure for fast single-cup brewing; home of the World AeroPress Championship.
Afghan cuisine
Afghan cuisine, the traditional cooking of Afghanistan, blends Persian, Central Asian, Turkic, and South Asian traditions; known for qabuli palau (national dish), mantu dumplings, naan, kebabs, aromatic rather than fiery spicing, and deep hospitality customs.