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Debra Ponzek
Debra Ponzek is an American chef from Morristown, New Jersey, the first female chef to win a New York Times three-star review (at Montrachet), and co-founder with Greg Addonizio of Connecticut's Aux Délices gourmet shops.
Decaffeination
Decaffeination removes most caffeine from green coffee beans using water, ethyl acetate, dichloromethane, or supercritical CO2. Decaf still holds 2-15 mg caffeine per cup; Roselius patented the first process in 1905, Zosel the CO2 method in 1970.
Decoupage
Decoupage, from French découper (to cut out), is the decorative craft of gluing paper cut-outs to objects and sealing them under varnish; known historically as lacca povera, fashionable in 1720s Europe.
Decoy (dog)
Decoy (Dekopin) is Shohei Ohtani's Dutch kooikerhondje, revealed December 2023 at his Dodgers introduction; famous for a 2024 first pitch, bobblehead night, and mock embassy visa.
Dee Ocleppo
Dee Ocleppo is a luxury lifestyle brand founded by Dee Ocleppo Hilfiger, wife of Tommy Hilfiger, around 2012, known for interchangeable Italian-made handbags, footwear, apparel, the DO by Dee Ocleppo line, and her Judith Leiber creative directorship.
Deep frying
Deep frying: cooking by full immersion in hot oil above water's boiling point (140–180 °C), forming a crispy crust; most oil uptake occurs during cooling; industrialized since the late 1890s for potato chips.
Deep-fried butter
Deep-fried butter is a state fair food of frozen butter balls or sticks coated in dough and deep fried, created by Abel Gonzales Jr. at the 2009 State Fair of Texas, where it won Most Creative at the Big Tex Choice Awards.
Deep-fried Mars bar
Deep-fried Mars bar: a battered, deep-fried Mars chocolate bar from Scottish chip shops, credited to the Carron Fish Bar in Stonehaven (1992), a tourist symbol and stereotype of the Scottish diet.
Deerstalker
Deerstalker: a soft tweed cap with visors front and back and ear flaps, designed for deer stalking in the Scottish Highlands and made famous as Sherlock Holmes's hat via Sidney Paget's 1891 Strand illustrations.
Del Monte Foods
Del Monte Foods was an American packaged food company in Walnut Creek, California, known for canned fruits, vegetables, and tomatoes under the Del Monte brand, a name since 1886.
Del Taco
Del Taco is an American quick-service restaurant chain, founded in 1964 in Yermo, California, that sells Mexican-inspired food such as tacos and burritos alongside burgers and fries.
Delftware
Delftware, also known as Delft Blue or Delft pottery, is Dutch tin-glazed earthenware first made in Delft in the early 17th century to imitate imported Chinese porcelain.
Delhaize Group
Delhaize Group was a Belgian food retail company founded in 1867 in Charleroi, known for Food Lion and Hannaford, that merged into Ahold in 2016.
Delia Smith
Delia Smith (born 1941, Woking) is an English cookery writer and TV presenter, author of How to Cheat at Cooking (1971) and the Cookery Course; over 21 million books sold, the 'Delia effect', and co-owner of Norwich City FC.
Delicacy
Delicacy: English noun for a rare or expensive food prized in a particular culture, and for fineness, fragility, tact, or precision; from Middle English delicasie, first recorded 1325–75.
Delicatessen
Delicatessen (deli): shop or supermarket counter selling prepared foods such as cold meats, cheeses, and salads; from German Delikatessen (1877); retail delis are a major source of Listeria monocytogenes risk.
Deliveroo
Deliveroo is a British food delivery platform founded in London in 2013 by Will Shu, operating a three-sided marketplace of consumers, riders and merchants. Acquired by DoorDash for £2.9 billion in October 2025; UK Supreme Court ruled its riders are not workers.
Delmonico's
Delmonico's, founded in New York in 1827 by Swiss brothers Giovanni and Pietro Delmonico, became America's first fine dining restaurant in 1837, birthed the Delmonico steak and dishes like Baked Alaska, closed in 1923, and operates today at 56 Beaver Street.
Demi-Leigh Tebow
Demi-Leigh Tebow (née Nel-Peters, born 1995, Sedgefield, South Africa) is a South African model, author and entrepreneur who won Miss South Africa 2017 and Miss Universe 2017, founded #Unbreakable, and married Tim Tebow in 2020.
Denim
Denim, a warp-faced cotton twill with indigo warp and white weft, from serge de Nîmes; distinguished from plain-weave chambray by weight (10-16 oz), fading, and its use in riveted jeans.
Denise Bidot
Denise Marie Bidot, plus-size model of Puerto Rican and Kuwaiti heritage, known for straight-size NYFW runway firsts, the viral 2016 unretouched Swimsuits for All campaign, the No Wrong Way Movement, judging Nuestra Belleza Latina, and a 2025 SI Swimsuit rookie debut.
Denominazione di origine controllata
Denominazione di origine controllata (DOC), with DOCG and IGT, is Italy's wine designation-of-origin system created by DPR 930 in 1963; DOC and DOCG mark EU PDO wines under a disciplinare, DOCG adding batch tasting and a numbered state seal.
Department store
Department store: large multi-department retail establishment selling apparel, home goods, and furnishings; pioneered by Paris' Au Bon Marché (1852) and A.T. Stewart's Marble Palace; heyday 1870s–1960s; now shrinking via Saks bankruptcy and Macy's closures.
Depression glass
Depression glass: inexpensive American machine-pressed colored tableware, roughly 1920s to early 1940s, made by firms like Hocking, Federal, and Hazel-Atlas, given away as premiums, and widely reproduced since the 1980s.
Deshret
Deshret, the Red Crown of ancient Egypt, symbolized rule over Lower Egypt; combined with the white hedjet it formed the pschent double crown, linked to Wadjet and Neith.
Desi daru (देसी दारू)
Desi daru (देसी दारू), also deshi sharab or country liquor, is Indian locally distilled spirits from molasses, mahua, rice, gur, or palm sap, typically 30-33% ethanol versus 42.8% IMFL, legal under state excise laws but repeatedly linked to methanol-laced illicit hooch deaths.
Dessert
Dessert is the sweet course served at the end of a meal, typically including cake, pie, fruit, pudding, and ice cream; the word comes from the French desservir, meaning "to clear the table".
Dessert wine
Dessert wine, also called pudding wine, is a sweet wine served with or as dessert, made by late harvest, noble rot, freezing, drying, or fortification.
Desugared orange juice
Desugared orange juice, or desugared fermented orange juice (GRN 679), is orange juice fermented with Schizosaccharomyces pombe to remove sugars, then pasteurized and dealcoholized; FDA had no questions in 2017.
Detroit Bridgerton Themed Ball
Detroit Bridgerton Themed Ball, also called Detroit Bridgerton Ball, was an unofficial Uncle & Me LLC fan event at the Harmonie Club on September 22, 2024, where $150-$1,000 tickets bought raw food, a lone violinist and a pole dancer instead of the advertised Regency ball, prompting scam complaints and refund demands.