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Crochet hook
Crochet hook: single pencil-sized hooked tool for crocheting; sized by shaft diameter in mm (US letters vary), steel hooks numbered in reverse; aluminum, wood, plastic, ergonomic handles, and long Tunisian variants.
Crocker Art Museum
The Crocker Art Museum, formerly the E. B. Crocker Art Gallery, is an art museum in Sacramento, California, established in 1885 when Margaret Crocker donated the family's collection to the city.
Crocs
Crocs: molded foam clog brand and Colorado footwear company (Crocs, Inc., NASDAQ: CROX), founded 1999, known for Croslite resin, Jibbitz charms, celebrity collaborations, and the HEYDUDE brand.
Croissant
Croissant: crescent-shaped laminated yeast pastry, French descendant of the Austrian kipferl brought to Paris by August Zang (1839); laminated butter dough recipe from 1915; flaky crust, honeycombed crumb.
Cronut
Cronut: trademarked croissant-doughnut hybrid pastry created by Dominique Ansel, launched May 10, 2013 at his SoHo New York bakery; TIME Best Invention 2013, sold only at his bakeries with monthly rotating flavors.
Crop top
Crop top: a short upper-body garment ending at or above the waist, exposing the midriff; also called half-shirt. Known from the Egtved Girl (c. 1370 BC), the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, 1980s aerobics craze, and 2010s 1990s-fashion revival.
Croque monsieur
Croque-monsieur: Parisian café hot sandwich of ham, Gruyère, and béchamel on pain de mie, first served 1910; topped with a fried egg it becomes the croque-madame.
Croquette
Croquette: small breaded, deep-fried roll of minced meat, fish, potato, or vegetables bound with bechamel; French origin (Massialot 1691), Spanish croqueta, Dutch kroket, Japanese korokke.
Cross-stitch
Cross-stitch is counted-thread embroidery made of X-shaped stitches on gridded even-weave fabric such as Aida, worked from a chart; distinct from freehand surface embroidery and needlepoint, with examples dating to AD 850.
Crossed fingers
Crossed fingers, or crossing fingers, is a hand gesture wishing good luck in the West, or, hidden behind the back, canceling a promise to permit a lie.
Crotch
Crotch: in clothing, the area where the legs join and the pant or underwear part covering it. The four-seam crotch intersection is a garment's highest-stress point, commonly reinforced with diamond or triangle gussets.
Crouton
Crouton (French croûton): small cube of toasted or fried bread used as garnish for salads, especially Caesar, and soups; English word since 1806, from croûte (crust), Latin crusta; also a packaged food market.
Crown (British coin)
Crown (British coin): five-shilling coin first struck in silver in 1551 under Edward VI, named for Henry VIII's 1526 gold crown. Redenominated 25p at decimalisation, £5 from 1990; 38.61 mm, 28.28 g, now commemorative only.
Crown Royal
Crown Royal is a blended Canadian whisky created in 1939 by Seagram's Samuel Bronfman for King George VI and Queen Elizabeth's royal tour, sold in a purple bag, now Diageo-owned and made at Gimli, Manitoba.
Crowns of Egypt
Crowns of Egypt: the pharaonic regalia, chiefly the White Crown (hedjet) of Upper Egypt, the Red Crown (deshret) of Lower Egypt, and the combined Pschent or Double Crown, plus the Atef, Khepresh, and nemes; known from depictions since Narmer (c. 3100 BC) because no actual crowns survive.
Cru (wine)
Cru (French, "growth") is a wine term for a terroir, vineyard, or commune and its wine. Meanings differ by region: Burgundy ranks Climats, Champagne communes, Bordeaux châteaux (1855 classification).
Cruller
Cruller: a deep-fried doughnut-family pastry, from Dutch krullen "to curl" (American English, 1805). Two forms exist: twisted yeasted Dutch/German crullers and the ridged French cruller of piped choux pastry; youtiao is the Chinese salted namesake.
Crying in H Mart
Crying in H Mart: A Memoir (H마트에서 울다), Michelle Zauner's 2021 Knopf debut, expands her 2018 New Yorker essay on grieving her Korean mother Chongmi through food and Korean American identity.
Crystal Head Vodka
Crystal Head Vodka: Canadian ultra-premium vodka founded in 2008 by Dan Aykroyd and John Alexander, sold in a skull-shaped bottle. Additive-free expressions Original (corn), Aurora (wheat), Onyx (agave), made in St. John's, Newfoundland, filtered through Herkimer diamonds.
Crystal Pepsi
Crystal Pepsi is PepsiCo's clear, caffeine-free cola launched in the US and Canada in 1992, discontinued in 1994 after $470 million in first-year sales, and revived for limited runs in 2015, 2016, and later.
Crystle Stewart
Crystle Danae Stewart (born 1981) is an American actress and Miss USA 2008 from Texas, later first Black woman licensed as national director of Miss USA and Miss Teen USA, and star of Netflix's Beauty in Black.
Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma Brewery
Cervecería Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma, or Heineken México, is a major Mexican brewery founded in Monterrey in 1890, merged with Cervecería Moctezuma in 1985, and owned by Heineken since 2010; it holds about 40% of the Mexican beer market with brands such as Tecate, Dos Equis, and Sol.
Cuban cuisine
Cuban cuisine: a Creole cooking tradition of Taíno, Spanish, African, and Chinese layers, unified by sofrito and mojo criollo; staples include congrí, ropa vieja, lechón asado, and tostones, now shaped by rationing and paladares.
Cuban espresso
Cuban espresso (café cubano, cafecito): small sweet espresso from Cuba in which raw sugar is whipped with the first drops into an espumita foam; base of colada, cortadito, and café con leche, central to Miami ventanita culture.
Cuban sandwich
Cuban sandwich (Cubano, mixto): a pressed sandwich of ham, mojo roast pork, Swiss cheese, pickles, and mustard on Cuban bread. Tampa adds Genoa salami, Miami does not; records place it on Havana menus in the 1800s before Tampa restaurants.
Cuisine
Cuisine: a culture's distinctive, shared pattern of food preparation and flavoring. Covers definitions, evolution since plant and animal domestication, culinary history, archaeology, migration and identity, classification, and 2026 dining trends.
Cuisine of Hawaii
Cuisine of Hawaii: indigenous Hawaiian food (poi, kalua pig, canoe crops) plus local food (plate lunch, loco moco, poke, saimin) from plantation-era immigration, and the 1991 Hawaii Regional Cuisine chef movement.
Cuisine of New England
Cuisine of New England, also called Yankee cooking, is the regional cooking of six northeastern US states, blending English Puritan, Wampanoag, and immigrant traditions with cod, shellfish, baked beans, chowder, and maple syrup.
Cuisine of New York City
The cuisine of New York City, also called New York City cuisine, is a city cuisine shaped by immigration, known for bagels, New York-style pizza, pastrami sandwiches, and street-cart hot dogs.
Cuisine of Provence
Cuisine of Provence: the regional cooking of southeastern France, built on olive oil, garlic, herbs, sun vegetables and fish, with dishes like aïoli, daube, tian and soupe au pistou; distinct from generic Mediterranean cuisine and codified only in the 19th century.