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ECCO
ECCO (ECCO Sko A/S), Danish family-owned footwear company founded 1963 by Karl and Birte Toosbuy in Bredebro; vertically integrated from tanneries to retail, known for direct-injection comfort shoes, BIOM golf line, and 101-country distribution.
Ed Debevic's
Ed Debevic's is a retro 1950s-themed diner chain founded in Chicago in 1984 by Rich Melman of Lettuce Entertain You, known for deliberately rude, singing, dancing waitstaff; closed 2015, revived 2021 in Streeterville.
Edam cheese
Edam cheese: Dutch semi-hard sweet-curd cow's-milk cheese from Edam, North Holland; part-skim (unlike whole-milk Gouda), spherical red-wax export form, about 40% milk fat in solids, PGI as Edam Holland.
Eddie Bauer
Eddie Bauer, Inc. is an American outdoor clothing and gear brand founded in Seattle in 1920, known for the Skyliner, the first patented down jacket in America.
Eddie Huang (黄颐铭)
Eddie Huang (黃頤銘), born 1982 in Washington, D.C., is a Taiwanese-American chef, lawyer, and author who founded Baohaus, wrote the memoir Fresh Off the Boat, and later directed Boogie.
Eddie Jackson (chef)
Eddie Jackson (born 1980) is an American celebrity chef and former NFL cornerback who won Food Network Star season 11 in 2015; he hosts Christmas Cookie Challenge and Outchef'd and founded the Chefs United Foundation.
Edeka
Edeka, also known as the Edeka Group, is a German grocery retail cooperative of independent merchants headquartered in Hamburg; founded in 1898, it had €77.3 billion revenue in 2025.
Edgar Bronfman Sr.
Edgar Bronfman Sr. (1929-2013), Montreal-born Canadian-American executive, led Seagram and was World Jewish Congress president 1971-2007, securing $1.25 billion in Swiss bank Holocaust restitution.
Edible bird's nest
Edible bird's nest (yànwō 燕窩, cubilose) is a delicacy made from solidified swiftlet saliva, mainly Aerodramus fuciphagus, from Southeast Asia. Over 50% protein, 8–12% sialic acid; used in TCM since the Tang dynasty; Indonesia produces 85%; priced USD 2,000–10,000/kg.
Edith Flagg
Edith Flagg (born Edith Feuerstein, 1919-2014) was a Romanian-born American fashion designer and Holocaust survivor who founded Edith Flagg, Inc. in Los Angeles, pioneered polyester (Crimplene) fashion imports, and later appeared as "Granny Edith" on Million Dollar Listing.
Edith Head
Edith Head, born Edith Claire Posener (1897–1981), was an American costume designer who worked on more than 1,000 films and won a record eight Academy Awards.
Edition (book)
Edition (book): the set of all copies printed from one setting of type; distinct from printing (impression), issue, and state. Covers first-edition identification, book club editions, MARC 250/ISBN cataloging, and collecting value.
Edmund de Waal
Edmund de Waal (b. 1964, Nottingham) is a British ceramic artist and writer known for porcelain vessel installations, library of exile, and the memoir The Hare with Amber Eyes (2010); CBE 2021, Windham-Campbell Prize 2015.
Edward Lee (chef)
Edward Lee (Lee Kyun), Korean-American chef from Brooklyn, chef-owner of 610 Magnolia in Louisville; author of Smoke & Pickles; 2019 James Beard writing winner; Culinary Class Wars runner-up.
Eel pie
Eel pie, a traditional London dish of pastry filled with eel from the Thames, is the original filling of the city's eel, pie and mash shops, first recorded as an 1844 Southwark eel pie house and now served in around 30 surviving shops.
Egbe Omo Oduduwa
Egbe Omo Oduduwa (Egbé Ọmọ Odùduwà, Society of the Descendants of Oduduwa) is a pan-Yoruba cultural organization founded in London in 1945 by Obafemi Awolowo and other Yoruba students.
Egg coffee
Egg coffee (cà phê trứng), also called ca phe trung, is a Hanoi drink invented in 1946 by bartender Nguyễn Văn Giang: egg yolk whipped with condensed milk floated on strong phin robusta coffee, with raw-egg safety caveats.
Egg cream
Egg cream: a New York City soda-fountain drink of milk, seltzer, and chocolate syrup with a foamy head, containing no egg and no cream; tied to Jewish immigrant culture and Fox's U-Bet syrup.
Egg drop soup (蛋花汤)
Egg drop soup (蛋花汤, Dànhuā tāng, egg flower soup) is a Chinese soup of beaten egg streamed into hot, often starch-thickened broth, setting into floating ribbons; a home staple and American Chinese menu starter with tomato and seaweed variants.
Egg foo young
Egg foo young (芙蓉蛋) is a Cantonese omelette dish turned Chinese-American takeout staple: egg patties with bean sprouts, onion, and pork, shrimp, or chicken, served with soy-based brown gravy; related to Indonesian fu yung hai and Dutch foe yong hai.
Egg roll
Egg roll is a cylindrical, deep-fried appetizer of American Chinese cuisine, developed in New York in the 1930s as a regional adaptation of the spring roll.
Egg tart (蛋挞)
Egg tart (蛋挞, daan tat; Portuguese-style pou tat) is a small custard-filled tart. Hong Kong style has smooth custard with lard puff or butter cookie crust; Macau's 1989 Andrew Stow adaptation of pastel de nata has caramelized spots and puff pastry.
Eggnog
Eggnog: chilled holiday drink of eggs, sugar, milk or cream, often spiked with rum, bourbon, or brandy; descended from medieval British posset, first printed 1788, US standard 1% egg yolk solids.
Eggo
Eggo (L'Eggo My Eggo) is an American frozen waffle brand founded in 1936 by Frank Dorsa in San Jose, acquired by Kellogg in the 1970s, now Kellanova; famous for Eleven's Stranger Things obsession and a 14% sales boost.
Eggs Benedict
Eggs Benedict (eggs benny) is a New York brunch dish of poached eggs on toasted English muffin halves with Canadian bacon and hollandaise sauce, created around 1894 with rival Waldorf and Delmonico's origin stories, and known for variations such as Florentine and royale.
Egyptian cuisine
Egyptian cuisine is the cooking tradition of Egypt, a plant-forward Nile Valley cuisine built on fava beans, lentils, bread, and rice, with a history reaching back 5,000 years.
Egyptian cultural dress
Egyptian cultural dress: linen-based pharaonic clothing, the galabeya, Nubian thobe al-das, Sinai tobe, and regional costumes, plus modern shifts to Western dress and the 1970s hijab return.
Egyptian faience
Egyptian faience, also called glazed composition, is a non-clay ceramic of crushed quartz with a soda-rich glaze, first made in the Badarian Culture (c. 5500–4000 BCE) and glazed by efflorescence, cementation, or application.
Einstein Bros. Bagels
Einstein Bros. Bagels: American fast-casual bagel chain founded 1995 in Lakewood, Colorado by Boston Chicken/Boston Market; also Einstein/Noah Bagel Corp. Largest US retail bagel chain, owned since 2014 by JAB Holding's Bagel Brands under Panera Brands; plans 300 new bakeries by 2030.
Eiraku Tsūhō
Eiraku Tsūhō (永楽通宝, Chinese: Yongle Tongbao) was a Ming dynasty copper one-mon coin, cast in China from 1408 and imported into Japan in large quantities as its standard currency until 1609.