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Dal
Dal (dhal; Hindi दाल, from Sanskrit dalaḥ, 'to split') names both dried, hulled, split pulses (lentil, mung, urad, chana, toor) and the tempered South Asian stew made from them, eaten daily with rice or roti.
Dal bati (दाल बाटी)
Dal bati (दाल बाटी), served with dal as dal baati churma, is Rajasthan's baked wheat dough balls soaked in ghee, eaten with panchmel dal and sweet crushed churma; its boiled-then-baked Malwa cousin is dal bafla, distinct from Bihar's sattu-stuffed litti chokha.
Dala horse
The Dala horse (Swedish: dalahäst; also Dalecarlian horse) is a carved, painted wooden horse figurine from the Swedish province of Dalarna and one of Sweden's best-known symbols.
Dalgona coffee (달고나 커피)
Dalgona coffee (달고나 커피), also called whipped coffee or café dalgona, is a frothy drink of instant coffee, sugar, and hot water whipped and spooned over milk; named after Korean dalgona candy in January 2020, it became the world's most searched coffee during the pandemic.
Dallah (دلة) (coffee pot)
Dallah (دلة): the long-spouted brass or copper coffee pot of Arabia used to brew and serve gahwa (Arabic coffee), central to Gulf hospitality; three-pot sets (khumra, talquma, mazla), UAE one-dirham coin emblem, UNESCO-listed since 2015.
Damaris Lewis
Damaris Lewis (born 1990) is an American model, dancer, actress, and host from Coney Island, Brooklyn, known for Sports Illustrated Swimsuit 2009-2011, touring as Prince's muse and dancer 2012-2016, co-hosting NBA Style, playing Blackfire in Titans, and founding the candle company Gorudo.
Damaris Phillips
Damaris Phillips (Damaris Lennon Phillips), born 1980, is an American chef and TV personality who won Food Network Star season 9 (2013), hosted Southern at Heart, co-hosts The Bobby and Damaris Show, and wrote Southern Girl Meets Vegetarian Boy.
Damask
Damask: a reversible figured woven fabric formed by contrasting warp-faced and weft-faced satin weaves, named for Damascus, originating in China, woven on jacquard looms in silk, linen, and cotton.
Dan mask
A Dan mask is a carved wooden face mask made by the Dan people of Liberia and Côte d'Ivoire, embodying a forest spirit during masquerade.
Dance belt
Dance belt: specialized male dancer's support undergarment, a jock-strap adaptation worn under tights for support, modesty, and a smooth line. Thong and full-seat styles; standard in ballet since the mid-20th century.
Dancing Pallbearers
Dancing Pallbearers, the Nana Otafrija Pallbearing & Waiting Service led by Benjamin Aidoo of Accra, Ghana, perform choreographed coffin dances at funerals; their 2017 BBC footage became the 2020 Coffin Dance meme set to Tony Igy's Astronomia.
Dandan noodles (担担面)
Dandan noodles (担担面) is a Sichuan dish of thin wheat noodles with chili oil, Sichuan pepper, preserved ya cai, and crisp minced pork, sold from shoulder poles.
Dandelion and burdock
Dandelion and burdock (D'n'B) is a traditional British carbonated soft drink flavoured with dandelion and burdock root extracts, earthy and aniseed in taste. Descended from medieval herbal brewing, sold by Barr, Ben Shaws, and Fentimans; category sugar content fell from 34 to 16 kcal/100 mL between 2014 and 2018.
Dandy
A dandy is a man devoted to elegant, meticulous dress and grooming. The term dates to 1780; Beau Brummell (1778–1840) defined Regency dandyism, and Black dandyism reworked the style into self-expression and protest.
Danger zone (food safety)
The danger zone in food safety is the temperature range, roughly 5–60°C (41–135°F per FDA Food Code; 40–140°F per USDA), where bacteria multiply rapidly; rules limit time in it and mandate two-stage cooling.
Daniel Boulud
Daniel Boulud (born 1955) is a French chef-restaurateur from Saint-Pierre-de-Chandieu near Lyon, based in New York since 1982; founder of The Dinex Group and of the flagship restaurant Daniel (1993), a James Beard and Michelin-starred empire.
Daniel Humm
Daniel Humm is a Swiss chef and owner of New York's Eleven Madison Park, which he made the first three-Michelin-star plant-based restaurant in 2021, after it was named World's Best Restaurant in 2017.
Daniel Lubetzky
Daniel Lubetzky (born 1968, Mexico City) is the Mexican-American founder of KIND Snacks, sold to Mars, a Shark Tank investor since 2024, and founder of PeaceWorks, OneVoice, Camino Partners, and the Builders Movement.
Danielle Lloyd
Danielle Lloyd, English model and TV personality from Liverpool (born 1983); Miss England 2004 and Miss Great Britain 2006; stripped of the latter title in November 2006 over a judge relationship and Playboy shoot, later cleared; Celebrity Big Brother 2007.
Danish cuisine
Danish cuisine (dansk køkken) is Denmark's food tradition of rye bread, pork, fish, and dairy, known for smørrebrød and the national dish stegt flæsk, and since 2004 for New Nordic Cuisine and Copenhagen's Noma.
Danish pastry
Danish pastry, called wienerbrød ("Viennese bread") in Denmark, is a sweet yeasted laminated pastry enriched with eggs and sugar, layered at roughly 24–54 fat folds, distinct from croissant and puff pastry, with Danish origins in 1840s Copenhagen.
Danny Meyer
Danny Meyer (Daniel Harris Meyer, born 1958) is the St. Louis-born New York restaurateur behind Union Square Hospitality Group, Union Square Cafe, Gramercy Tavern, and Shake Shack, founder of Enlightened Hospitality and the 2015 Hospitality Included no-tipping experiment.
Danone
Danone, French food and beverage multinational founded 1919 in Barcelona by Isaac Carasso, named after son Daniel; Paris headquarters, Euronext Paris listed; three categories (dairy and plant-based, waters, specialized nutrition), €27.3bn 2025 sales, B Corp certified, Société à Mission pioneer.
Daphne Guinness
Daphne Guinness, The Honourable Daphne Guinness, British heiress of the Guinness brewing and Mitford families, is a fashion collector, designer, muse, filmmaker, and singer-songwriter known for her couture archive, the 2011 FIT exhibition, the Isabella Blow Foundation, and albums with Tony Visconti.
Daphne Oz
Daphne Nur Oz, born 1986, daughter of Dr. Mehmet Oz, is an Emmy-winning American TV host and cookbook author, formerly co-host of The Chew and The Good Dish, now a MasterChef Junior judge.
Dapper Dan (designer)
Dapper Dan, born Daniel Day in 1944, is a Harlem fashion designer whose 1982-1992 boutique made custom logo-printed luxury garments for hip-hop stars, closed after lawsuits, and was revived with Gucci backing in 2018.
Darden Restaurants
Darden Restaurants is a full-service restaurant company headquartered in Orlando, Florida, whose brands include Olive Garden, LongHorn Steakhouse, Yard House, and The Capital Grille, spun off from General Mills in 1995.
Darjeeling tea
Darjeeling tea, the "champagne of teas", is a GI-protected Himalayan black tea from 87 gardens in West Bengal's Darjeeling and Kalimpong districts, grown from Chinese-variety bushes at up to 2,000 m, prized for muscatel flavor and sold in four flushes.
Dark 'n' stormy
Dark 'n' stormy: Bermuda's trademarked highball of dark rum (Goslings Black Seal), ginger beer, and lime, attributed to British sailors after World War I and legally restricted to Goslings rum since 1991.
Dark academia
Dark academia is an internet aesthetic and literary subculture romanticizing higher education, gothic libraries, and classic literature. Emerging on Tumblr around 2014–2015 and popularized during COVID-19, it centers on Donna Tartt's The Secret History and has a lighter counterpart, Light Academia.