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Camembert
Camembert: soft, bloomy-rind cow's milk cheese from Normandy, France; Camembert de Normandie (AOC 1983, PDO 1996) requires raw milk, ladle molding in five layers, 250 g, 45% fat, 21-day ripening, poplar box.
Camila Alves
Camila Alves (Camila Alves McConaughey), Brazilian-born model, designer and entrepreneur; moved to Los Angeles at 15, worked as a maid, then modeled for Dior and Mango; married Matthew McConaughey in 2012; founded Muxo, Women of Today, Yummy Spoonfuls, and Pantalones Tequila.
Camisole
Camisole (cami): a waist-length sleeveless undergarment for women, from French camisole via Late Latin camisia. Once a men's 1670s waistcoat and a Victorian corset cover; now both underwear and outerwear.
Campa Cola
Campa Cola, Indian soft drink brand launched in 1977 by Pure Drinks Group after Coca-Cola's FERA-driven exit; dominated 1980s India with 'The Great Indian Taste', declined after 1991 liberalization, and was relaunched by Reliance in 2023.
Campaign hat
The campaign hat, also called the Smokey Bear hat or drill sergeant hat, is a broad-brimmed felt hat with a four-cornered peaked crown worn in uniforms.
Campari
Campari is the iconic Italian red bitter aperitif invented by Gaspare Campari in Novara in 1860, first sold as Bitter all'uso d'Hollanda. Bottled at 24% abv with a secret recipe, it anchors the Negroni, Americano, and Spritz and is the flagship of Gruppo Campari.
Campari Group
Campari Group (Davide Campari-Milano N.V.), Italian premium spirits company founded 1860, maker of Campari bitter and Aperol; sixth-largest global premium spirits player, controlled by Lagfin, FY2025 net sales €3,051 million.
Campden tablet
Campden tablet: pre-measured potassium or sodium metabisulfite pill releasing sulfur dioxide, developed at Chipping Campden, England, for WWII fruit preservation; used in home winemaking, cider, mead, and brewing water dechlorination.
Can opener
Can opener: tool for opening sealed metal cans. Also tin opener. Invented long after the can: Ezra Warner's 1858 patent, Lyman's 1870 rotary wheel, Bunker's 1920s toothed-wheel crank, electric models from 1931/1957.
Canada Day
Canada Day (Fête du Canada), formerly Dominion Day, is Canada's national holiday on July 1, marking Confederation on July 1, 1867; renamed from Dominion Day on October 27, 1982.
Canada Goose (clothing)
Canada Goose, Canadian performance luxury apparel brand founded 1957 in Toronto as Metro Sportswear by Sam Tick; Dani Reiss CEO; famous for Expedition Parka, fur-free since 2022, NYSE/TSX: GOOS.
Canadian Club
Canadian Club is a blended Canadian whisky brand founded by Hiram Walker in Walkerville, Ontario in 1858, first sold as Club Whisky. Now owned by Beam Suntory, it is known for light, smooth blends, Prohibition-era smuggling fame, and a Royal Warrant from 1898.
Canadian cuisine
Canadian cuisine: the regional, immigrant- and Indigenous-shaped food traditions of Canada, with no single national canon. Poutine, butter tarts, tourtière, maple syrup (Quebec makes ~72% of world supply), and bannock define it.
Canadian Food Inspection Agency
Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA), Canada's federal food, animal, and plant health regulator established 1 April 1997 under the CFIA Act; administers the Safe Food for Canadians Act and related statutes, conducts inspections, and manages about 300 food recalls yearly.
Canadian whisky
Canadian whisky, colloquially "rye" in Canada, is whisky mashed, distilled, and aged at least three years in small wood in Canada, blended from base and flavoring whiskies, with no minimum rye content and a 9.09% flavoring allowance.
Canapé
Canapé: a single-bite appetizer of bread, toast, or cracker with a savory topping; French for "couch". Distinguished from hors d'oeuvres by its required edible base; culinary use since late 18th-century France.
Canarian traditional dress
Canarian traditional dress, the traje canario, is the folk dress of the Canary Islands, where each island has its own typical costume worn at festivals and by folkloric groups.
Candace Nelson
Candace Nelson (born 1974, Indonesia) is an Indonesian-born American pastry chef and entrepreneur who co-founded Sprinkles Cupcakes, the world's first cupcake bakery and Cupcake ATM, and later Pizzana; judge on Cupcake Wars and Sugar Rush.
Candace Wheeler
Candace Thurber Wheeler (1827–1923), American textile and interior designer, America's first important woman in both fields; founded the Society of Decorative Art (1877), partnered with Louis Comfort Tiffany, ran the all-woman firm Associated Artists, and decorated the 1893 Woman's Building.
Candice Swanepoel
Candice Swanepoel (born 1988, Mooi River, South Africa) is a South African model, Victoria's Secret Angel from 2010, wearer of the 2013 $10 million Fantasy Bra, and founder of the swimwear brand Tropic of C.
Candy
Candy: sweet solid or semi-solid confectionery made mainly from sucrose and glucose syrup, spanning hard candy, toffees, fondants, gummies, and fudge. Texture is controlled by boiling temperature and crystallization; the global market is about USD 78.81 billion in 2026.
Candy cane
Candy cane: a hooked hard candy with red and white stripes, traditionally peppermint-flavored and tied to Christmas. Also called sugar stick. Origin uncertain; 17th-century white sticks, US debut 1847 in Wooster, Ohio; ~1.76 billion made yearly in the US, 90% sold Thanksgiving to Christmas.
Candy corn
Candy corn: tricolored American mallow-cream candy shaped like a corn kernel, invented in the 1880s by George Renninger at Wunderle, mass-produced by Goelitz (Jelly Belly) as Chicken Feed from 1898, and a Halloween staple since the 1950s; Brach's makes about 88 percent of US sales.
Candy making
Candy making, or sugar confectionery production, converts sucrose syrups into boiled sweets, toffees, fondants, fudge, and gummies by controlling boiling temperature, moisture, and crystallization; distinct from chocolate making, which relies on cocoa butter tempering.
Canelé
Canelé (also cannelé, Occitan canelat): small fluted cylindrical pastry from Bordeaux with a caramelized crust and custardy interior, baked in beeswax-coated copper molds; one-n spelling trademarked in 1985.
Cannabis edible
Cannabis edible: food or drink infused with THC or CBD, taken orally. Also called edibles or cannabis-infused foods. Low 6–20% bioavailability, 30 min–2 h delayed onset, up to 24 h duration, 10 mg THC package limit in Canada.
Cannabis smoking
Cannabis smoking, also called marijuana or pot smoking, is the inhalation of smoke from burning cannabis, the most common route of cannabis use, delivering THC rapidly to the bloodstream.
Cannibalism in Africa
Cannibalism in Africa covers documented ritual and wartime cases (Zande, Leopard society, Mambasa 2003, Sahel videos) and the European colonial discourse of the savage African cannibal, largely refuted by modern anthropology since Arens' 1979 Man-Eating Myth.
Canning
Canning preserves food by heat processing in sealed airtight containers, developed by Nicolas Appert in Napoleonic France. Key facts: pH 4.6 divides water-bath from pressure canning; 12D botulinum standard at 121.1 °C.
Cantonese cuisine
Cantonese cuisine (粤菜, Yue cai), the cooking of Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macau, is one of China's eight major cuisines with Guangfu, Teochew, and Hakka branches, known for fresh ingredients, light seasoning, wok hei, and yum cha dim sum culture.