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Buffalo wing
Buffalo wing: deep-fried unbreaded chicken wing pieces tossed in hot sauce and melted butter, served with celery and blue cheese. Credited to Buffalo, New York's Anchor Bar in 1964 (Teressa Bellissimo), with rival claims by John Young's Wings 'n Things; celebrated with Chicken Wing Day since 1977.
Buffalo-style pizza
Buffalo-style pizza is Western New York's regional pie: thick, airy crust with toppings to the edges, sweet sauce, roughly triple the New York cheese load, cup-and-char pepperoni, square-cut and not folded.
Buffet
Buffet (自助餐): self-service dining format where guests select from displayed dishes, usually at a fixed price. Covers etymology, Scandinavian and Las Vegas origins, service types, food-safety temperature limits, food waste, and nutrition research.
Buldak Ramen
Buldak Ramen (불닭볶음면, Hot Chicken Flavor Ramen) is Samyang Foods' spicy Korean stir-fried instant noodle, launched April 2012, famous for the Fire Noodle Challenge, 10 billion units sold, and Denmark's 2024 capsaicin recall.
Bulgari
Bulgari (BVLGARI), Italian luxury jewelry and watch house founded in Rome in 1884 by Greek silversmith Sotirio Bulgari; known for Serpenti, B.zero1, Octo; LVMH-owned since 2011.
Bulgogi (불고기)
Bulgogi (불고기) is Korea's marinated grilled beef: thin soy-sauce, pear, garlic, and sesame marinade, lineage from Goguryeo maekjeok through Joseon neobiani, with brothy Seoul and charcoal Eonyang and Gwangyang styles.
Bulleit Bourbon
Bulleit Bourbon (Frontier Whiskey) is a Diageo-owned Kentucky straight bourbon, 90 proof, mashbill 68/28/4 corn-rye-barley, founded by Tom Bulleit in 1987, historically sourced from Four Roses, with own distilleries since 2017.
Bunad
The bunad is a Norwegian national costume based on rural folk dress, largely designed in the 20th century and worn by about 70 percent of Norwegian women.
Bundt cake
Bundt cake: cake baked in a fluted tube pan trademarked by Nordic Ware, invented 1950 by H. David Dalquist in Minneapolis from a German kugelhopf mold; famous after the 1966 Pillsbury Bake-Off Tunnel of Fudge cake.
Bunjil
Bunjil, also recorded as Pundjel or Bundjil, is the creator ancestor of the Kulin nation of central Victoria, Australia, who takes the form of the wedge-tailed eagle.
Bunny chow
Bunny chow, or "bunny", is Durban, South Africa's curry-in-a-hollowed-white-bread-loaf street food, created by the Indian community around 1940s Grey Street under apartheid take-away restrictions; filled with mutton, chicken, or bean curry and eaten by hand.
Burberry
Burberry is a British luxury fashion house founded by Thomas Burberry in Basingstoke in 1856, famous for gabardine (invented 1879), the trench coat, and the Burberry Check. Distinct from other brands via its Yorkshire-made heritage trenches, Equestrian Knight logo, and LSE-listed Burberry Group plc.
Burger Chef
Burger Chef, an American fast-food hamburger chain founded in Indianapolis in 1958 by Frank P. Thomas Jr. and Bob Wildman, became the second-largest US restaurant chain before General Foods sold it to Hardee's owner Imasco in 1982; the last location closed in 1996.
Burger King
Burger King (BK) is an American hamburger fast food chain founded in Miami in 1954 by McLamore and Edgerton, known for the Whopper and flame-grilling, now owned by Restaurant Brands International with about 19,000 restaurants worldwide.
Bürgerbräukeller
Bürgerbräukeller: Munich beer hall (1885–1979, Rosenheimer Straße) hosting the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch start and Georg Elser's failed 1939 bomb attack on Hitler, demolished 1979.
Burgundy
Burgundy (Bourgogne) is a historical region of east-central France, a former duchy and former administrative region, and a celebrated wine region whose Climats vineyards are UNESCO World Heritage listed.
Burgundy wine
Burgundy wine: wines of Bourgogne, France, from Pinot Noir and Chardonnay across 84 appellations and 1,247 UNESCO-listed Climats on 30,052 hectares, shaped by monks, Valois dukes, and a cool climate with ever-earlier harvests.
Burial
Burial: the deliberate interment of a body or cremated remains, studied through mortuary archaeology. Covers inhumation and cremation rites, grave goods, monuments, and aDNA and isotope methods from Mesolithic to medieval Europe.
Burkini
Burkini (also burqini): full-coverage modest swimsuit invented by Lebanese-Australian designer Aheda Zanetti in 2003–2004, trademarked by her brand Ahiida; portmanteau of burqa and bikini; subject of French, German, Spanish, and Austrian regulation.
Burley (tobacco)
Burley tobacco: light air-cured cigarette tobacco, low sugar, high alkaloid; White Burley arose 1864 in Ohio; centered on Kentucky's burley belt; about one-third of American-blend cigarettes.
Burlington Industries
Burlington Industries was an American textile manufacturer headquartered in Greensboro, North Carolina, founded by J. Spencer Love in 1923 and once described as the world's largest textile company.
Burmese cuisine
Burmese cuisine, also called the cuisine of Myanmar, is the cookery of Myanmar, centered on rice with curry, soup, and ngapi, a fermented fish paste.
Burmese lacquerware
Burmese lacquerware is the craft of coating bamboo or wooden vessels with lacquer from the Gluta usitata tree, centered on Bagan, Myanmar, since the eleventh century.
Burmese royal regalia
The Burmese royal regalia are the crowns, thrones, and insignia symbolizing the divine kingship of Burma's monarchs, with the White Umbrella the most important of the five symbols.
Burney Relief
Burney Relief, also called Queen of the Night, an Old Babylonian terracotta plaque (c. 1800–1750 BCE, 49.5 x 37 cm) in the British Museum showing a winged, talon-footed goddess with owls and lions; her identity, Ishtar, Ereshkigal, or Lilith, remains disputed.
Burning Man
Burning Man is an annual weeklong arts and community event in Nevada's Black Rock Desert, building temporary Black Rock City since 1990 after starting on Baker Beach in 1986; guided by the Ten Principles, no vending except ice, about 80,000 attendees.
Burns supper
Burns supper, or Burns Night dinner: annual commemoration of Scottish poet Robert Burns, held on 25 January. First held 21 July 1801 at Burns Cottage, Alloway by nine friends led by Rev. Hamilton Paul; features haggis, the Immortal Memory toast, and Auld Lang Syne.
Burnt ends
Burnt ends: crispy smoked beef brisket point pieces, a Kansas City barbecue specialty also called brownies. Originated as free Arthur Bryant's scraps, popularized by Calvin Trillin's 1972 Playboy essay, now a national menu staple.
Burqa (برقع)
Burqa (برقع, burka, burkha): Muslim women's covering garment. Afghan chadri covers the whole body with a mesh eye grille; Gulf and Emirati burqas are face masks leaving the eyes clear; subject of European face-covering bans.
Burrata
Burrata, also known as Burrata di Andria, is a fresh Italian cow's-milk cheese from Andria in Apulia, made as a mozzarella shell filled with creamy stracciatella.