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Cadbury Roses
Cadbury Roses: assorted wrapped chocolates brand launched by Cadbury in 1938 in response to Quality Street, now owned by Mondelēz; known for soft centres, twist-to-flow-wrap changes, and shrinking tub sizes.
Caesar (cocktail)
Caesar, or Bloody Caesar: Canada's national cocktail, invented in 1969 by Walter Chell at the Calgary Inn. Vodka with Clamato (tomato-clam juice), Worcestershire, hot sauce, celery salt rim, celery and lime garnish; 350 to 400 million drunk yearly.
Café Coffee Day
Café Coffee Day (CCD), India's pioneering coffee café chain founded by V.G. Siddhartha, opened its first Bengaluru café in 1996, peaked at 1,752 cafés in 2019, and ran 424 cafés with 55,802 vending machines by FY26 under Coffee Day Global Limited.
Cafe Hon
Cafe Hon was a Hampden, Baltimore restaurant opened by Denise Whiting in 1992, famous for its pink flamingo, HONfest, and the 2010 'hon' trademark controversy, closed 2022.
Café Tortoni
Café Tortoni is a historic café at Avenida de Mayo 825 in Buenos Aires, founded in 1858 and regarded as Argentina's oldest café still operating.
Cafeteria
Cafeteria (cafetería): a self-service restaurant where customers carry a tray along a line of premade food, pay per item, and seat themselves. Originated 1890s Chicago and Los Angeles, peaked 1930s–1990s, now mainly institutional.
Caffè mocha
Caffè mocha, also called mochaccino or mocha latte, is an espresso drink combining espresso, chocolate, and steamed milk. Named after Yemen's port of Mocha, it descends from Turin's bicerin and runs latte-style ratios versus the 1:1:1 mochaccino.
Caffè Nero
Caffè Nero is a British coffeehouse chain founded by the American businessman Gerry Ford in London in 1997, with over 1,100 outlets across Europe and the Middle East.
Caguana Ceremonial Center
The Caguana Ceremonial Center (Centro Ceremonial Indígena de Caguana) is a Taíno ball court and plaza site in Utuado, Puerto Rico, built around AD 1200–1500.
Caipirinha
Caipirinha: Brazil's national cocktail of cachaça, lime, and sugar, built in the glass over cracked ice. IBA Contemporary Classic with Caipiroska, Caipirissima, and Caipirão variants; legally defined at 15–36% ABV.
Caitlin O'Connor
Caitlin O'Connor is an American actress and producer known for playing Dyan Cannon in HBO's Winning Time and for her Producers Guild of America induction in 2024.
Cajun cuisine
Cajun cuisine is the rural cooking of south Louisiana's Acadian descendants, marked by dark oil-based roux, rice, pork, crawfish, gumbo, and boudin, distinct from tomato-based Creole cuisine of New Orleans.
Cake
Cake: a sweet baked food of flour, sugar, eggs, fat, and liquid, from Old Norse-derived English word kaka descendant. Covers batter and foam types, leavening history, pound cake, cake mixes, Bundt pan, sugar reduction, and clean-label reformulation.
Cake Boss
Cake Boss is a TLC reality series (premiered April 19, 2009) following baker Buddy Valastro of Carlo's Bakery in Hoboken, New Jersey, and his family; 15 seasons, spin-offs Next Great Baker, Kitchen Boss, and Bakery Boss.
Cake decorating
Cake decorating is the craft of covering and ornamenting cakes with buttercream, fondant, and royal icing using piping, smoothing, and string work techniques. It traces to 17th-century Britain and Joseph Lambeth's 19th-century piping style, with 2026 trends favoring vintage Lambeth and textured buttercream.
Calavera
Calavera (Spanish, "skull"): Mexican Day of the Dead skull imagery, including sugar, chocolate, and amaranth skulls (alfeñique technique), satirical Posada prints like La Catrina, and humorous mock-epitaph verses written each November.
Calcium acid pyrophosphate
Calcium acid pyrophosphate (calcium dihydrogen diphosphate, CaH2P2O7, INS 450(vii)) is a slow-acting leavening acid for baked goods; US GRAS via GRN 420, JECFA MTDI 70 mg P/kg bw, sodium-free substitute for sodium acid pyrophosphate.
Calcium lactate
Calcium lactate (E327, CAS 814-80-2) is the calcium salt of lactic acid, a GRAS white crystalline food additive used as firming agent, stabilizer, leavening agent, and calcium fortificant in foods, supplements, and animal feed, with calcium absorption similar to other calcium salts.
Calcium propionate
Calcium propionate (calcium propanoate, E 282, INS 282, CAS 4075-81-4) is the calcium salt of propionic acid, a GRAS mold inhibitor used in bread, cheese, and dairy-cow feed, ineffective against yeast.
Caleb Bradham
Caleb Davis Bradham (1867-1934), New Bern, North Carolina pharmacist, invented Pepsi-Cola as "Brad's Drink" (1893), renamed it in 1898, founded the Pepsi-Cola Company in 1902, and lost it to 1923 sugar-price bankruptcy.
Calender
Calender (calendering): a textile finishing process passing fabric between heated, pressurized rollers (up to 400 bar, 150–220 °C) to smooth, glaze, or emboss cloth; variants include swissing, friction, Schreiner, and embossing calenders.
California roll
California roll (カリフォルニアロール): an American inside-out uramaki sushi with crab or surimi, avocado, and cucumber, invented in 1960s–70s Los Angeles (contested credit: Mashita, Seusa, Tojo) and the most-eaten US sushi.
California wine
California wine is wine made from grapes grown in California, which produces about 80 percent of United States wine, led by regions such as Napa Valley and Sonoma County.
Calling of an Engineer
The Calling of an Engineer, or Iron Ring Ceremony, is a Canadian ritual written by Rudyard Kipling in 1923 at Herbert Haultain's request, first held April 25, 1925 in Montreal, administered by the Corporation of the Seven Wardens through 28 Camps, with an iron ring worn on the working hand's little finger.
Calvados
Calvados is Normandy's AOC-protected apple and pear brandy, one of France's three great brandies with Cognac and Armagnac. Three appellations (Calvados, Pays d'Auge, Domfrontais), minimum 40% ABV, two years oak aging, about 6 million bottles yearly.
Calvin Klein
Calvin Klein, founded in New York in 1968 by designer Calvin Klein and Barry Schwartz, is an American fashion brand known for minimalist style, designer jeans, provocative ads, and logo-waistband underwear; owned by PVH since 2003, with about $9 billion in 2025 retail sales.
Cambodian New Year (មហាសង្ក្រាន្ត)
Cambodian New Year (មហាសង្ក្រាន្ត, Maha Sangkranta; Choul Chnam Thmey) is Cambodia's three-day mid-April national holiday marking the harvest's end and rainy season, with temple rituals, folk games, water play, and a 2026 UNESCO nomination effort.
Cambric
Cambric, also known historically as batiste (named after a legendary Cambrai weaver), is a fine closely woven plain-weave fabric originally in linen from Cambrai, northern France; a 1530 record shows cambric bought for Henry VIII's shirts, and today it is a light calendered cotton of roughly 60–140 GSM used for shirts, handkerchiefs, linings and printed ethnic wear.
Cambridge Beer Festival
The Cambridge Beer Festival is a beer and cider festival held on Jesus Green in Cambridge, England, first held in 1974 and run by the Cambridge branch of CAMRA.
Camel milk
Camel milk, from the dromedary and Bactrian camel, is a staple of arid-region pastoralists, similar to cow milk but saltier, lacking β-lactoglobulin, richer in vitamin C, and increasingly commercially processed despite UHT and cheese-making difficulties.