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Chopsticks (筷子)
Chopsticks (筷子, anciently 箸) are paired eating sticks invented in China, in documented use since the Shang dynasty and common worldwide: about three in ten people eat with them, with distinct Chinese, Japanese, and Korean styles.
Chorizo
Chorizo (Portuguese chouriço) is a paprika-seasoned pork sausage from Iberia. Spanish chorizo is cured and eaten sliced; Mexican chorizo is fresh, chile-colored, and crumbled and cooked before eating.
Chouquette
Chouquette: small French unfilled choux pastry puff, about 2-3 cm, topped with pearl sugar (sucre perlé) before baking; eaten at breakfast or le goûter; part of the pâte à choux family with éclairs and gougères.
Choux pastry
Choux pastry (pâte à choux) is a twice-cooked French dough of water, butter, flour, and eggs, leavened only by steam; base of éclairs, profiteroles, gougères, and croquembouche.
Chow mein
Chow mein (炒麵, "stir-fried noodles") is a Cantonese noodle dish brought to America by Gold Rush-era immigrants. Distinct from lo mein by wok-frying, it split into East Coast crispy, West Coast soft, and sandwich variants.
Chowder
Chowder is a thick, chunky seafood or vegetable soup or stew, named from French chaudiere (cooking pot). First attested 1751; brought by Breton fishermen via Newfoundland to New England; famous variants include milk-based New England and tomato-based Manhattan clam chowder.
Chris Fischer
Chris Fischer is an American chef, farmer, and food writer who runs Beetlebung Farm in Chilmark, Massachusetts, and won a 2016 James Beard Award for his cookbook.
Chris Kempczinski
Chris Kempczinski (born 1968, Cincinnati) is Chairman, President, and CEO of McDonald's Corporation since November 2019, chairman since May 2024, architect of the Accelerating the Arches strategy, formerly of Kraft Heinz, PepsiCo, and P&G.
Chrissy Teigen
Chrissy Teigen (Christine Diane Teigen), American model, TV personality, and cookbook author born 1985 in Delta, Utah; SI Swimsuit Rookie of the Year 2010, 2014 and 2024 cover model, wife of John Legend, author of Cravings.
Christian Audigier
Christian Audigier (1958–2015), French fashion designer and entrepreneur behind Von Dutch's revival and the Ed Hardy tattoo-streetwear brand, sold Ed Hardy to Iconix for $62 million in 2011.
Christian Cowan
Christian Cowan (born 1994) is a British fashion designer, born in Spain and raised in England, founder of his New York-based womenswear label (2017), a 2018 CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund finalist known for celebrity party wear and downtown NYFW shows.
Christian dietary laws
Christian dietary laws: unlike kosher and halal, Christianity has few permanent food rules; Acts 15 set minimal restrictions, and most obligations are Orthodox, Catholic, and Adventist fasting and abstinence practices.
Christian Dior
Christian Ernest Dior was a French fashion designer, born in 1905, who founded the House of Dior in 1946 and transformed postwar fashion with his 1947 New Look.
Christian Lacroix
Christian Lacroix (born 1951, Arles) is a French fashion designer who founded his couture house in 1987 after Jean Patou, defined 1980s color and baroque embellishment, led Pucci 2002-2005, and designs opera, ballet, and theater costumes.
Christian Louboutin
Christian Louboutin (born 1963, Paris) is the French shoe designer and founder of the Louboutin luxury house, famous for red-lacquered soles (Pantone 18-1663TP), a trademark upheld in US and EU courts, and an independent brand valued at €2.25 billion in 2021.
Christian Siriano
Christian Siriano, American fashion designer and Project Runway season 4 winner (finale March 2008), founded his eponymous label in 2008; known for size-inclusive red-carpet glamour, CFDA membership since 2013, and mentoring Project Runway.
Christie Brinkley
Christie Brinkley (born Christie Lee Hudson, 1954) is an American supermodel, actress, and entrepreneur, first model on three consecutive Sports Illustrated Swimsuit covers (1979–1981), CoverGirl face, Billy Joel's 'Uptown Girl', memoir author.
Christina Machamer
Christina Machamer, born 1982 in St. Louis, is an American chef and sommelier who won Hell's Kitchen season 4 (2008), earning a $250,000 post at Gordon Ramsay's London West Hollywood, then built a Napa Valley food-and-wine career.
Christina Tosi
Christina Tosi (born 1981) is an American pastry chef, founder of Milk Bar, creator of Cereal Milk, Compost Cookie, and Milk Bar Pie, James Beard winner, and MasterChef judge.
Christina Wilson
Christina Wilson, born 1979 in Phillipsburg, New Jersey, is the Hell's Kitchen Season 10 winner (2012) who became chef de cuisine at Gordon Ramsay Steak Las Vegas ($250,000 salary), then executive chef at BurGR, corporate executive chef, and VP of Culinary for Gordon Ramsay North America until December 2023, and red team sous chef on Seasons 15 and 17-22.
Christine Hà
Christine Hà (born 1979) is a Vietnamese American chef, the first blind contestant and season 3 (2012) winner of MasterChef US, author of the New York Times best-seller Recipes from My Home Kitchen, and owner of Houston restaurants The Blind Goat, Xin Chào, and Stuffed Belly.
Christmas
Christmas is the Christian festival of Jesus' birth, kept on December 25 since the Roman calendar of 354 A.D., preceded by the older Epiphany feast of January 6; its date's origin is disputed between calculation theory and pagan solar-festival alignment, and since the 19th century it is also a secular, commercialized global holiday.
Christmas and holiday season
The Christmas and holiday season, also called the holiday season, is the annual period of celebration, gift giving, and family gathering centered on Christmas, running from late November through New Year.
Christmas carp
Christmas carp: pond-raised carp eaten fried with potato salad on Czech Christmas Eve, also in Poland, Slovakia and Austria; bought live from street tanks, bathtub-kept, scales kept for luck.
Christmas cracker
Christmas cracker: British festive novelty invented by Tom Smith (1823–1869) from French bon bons; patented 1847, silver fulminate snap, Cosaques name, Tom Smith royal warrant, 50 million made yearly.
Christmas dinner
Christmas dinner, the festive meal of Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, or Epiphany, known in Britain and America for roast turkey, stuffing, and Christmas pudding. Its modern menu emerged in the nineteenth century; other traditions center on carp, ham, lamb, or KFC in Japan.
Christmas in July
Christmas in July, also called Yulefest or Midwinter Christmas, is an unofficial July celebration with Christmas-themed parties, sales, and events. Oldest reference: Massenet's 1892 opera Werther; first US celebration: Keystone Camp, North Carolina, 1933; popular in Australia as a winter festival.
Christmas in the Philippines
Christmas in the Philippines, Pasko sa Pilipinas (Pasko), is the September-to-January holiday season widely called the world's longest. Its defining customs are the Ber months, Simbang Gabi dawn Masses, parol lanterns, Noche Buena, and Jose Mari Chan's "Christmas in Our Hearts."
Christmas lights
Christmas lights: strings of electric lamps, now mostly LEDs, for decorating trees and homes. Invented as hand-wired bulbs by Edward H. Johnson in 1882; mass-market via GE kits (1903) and NOMA; LEDs use about 70% less energy than incandescent.
Christmas market
Christmas market (Weihnachtsmarkt, Christkindlmarkt): a seasonal street market of stalls selling gifts, ornaments, sweets, and hot drinks during Advent. Originated in German-speaking Europe, with Dresden's Striezelmarkt (1434) among the oldest; most German markets began after 1970.