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Escabeche
Escabeche (escabèche, escabetx, from sikbāj): Iberian-Mediterranean technique of marinating fried or cooked fish, poultry, or vegetables in vinegar, oil, and spices; preserved food eaten cold, spread to Latin America, the Philippines, and Jamaica.
Escoffion
Escoffion (scoffion): a medieval French women's headdress, originally a jeweled net-covered cushion, later a horned padded head-dress of the fifteenth century alongside the hennin; the word later became a burlesque term for common women's headwear.
Esme Young
Esme Young (born 1949) is an English fashion designer, costume designer, and judge on The Great British Sewing Bee since 2016; co-founder of Swanky Modes (1972–1993) and maker of the Bridget Jones bunny outfit.
Espagnole sauce
Espagnole (sauce espagnole, brown sauce) is one of Escoffier's five French mother sauces: brown roux, brown stock, mirepoix, and tomato, simmered for hours. Base of demi-glace and brown derivatives such as bordelaise.
Espresso
Espresso (caffè espresso) is a concentrated Italian coffee made by forcing 90.5–96.1°C water at about 9 bar through finely ground coffee in 20–30 seconds, topped with crema; invented from Moriondo's 1884 and Bezzera's steam machines, now standardized by SCA parameters.
Espresso and tonic
Espresso and tonic, also called espresso tonic or coffee tonic, is a cold sparkling drink of espresso poured over iced tonic water. Created in 2007 in Oslo and popularized by Koppi in Helsingborg, Sweden, it is defined by its layered pour, quinine-coffee bitterness, and spread from specialty cafés to chains like Starbucks.
Espresso machine
An espresso machine is a device that forces hot water through finely ground, compacted coffee at high pressure to brew espresso in seconds, ranging from manual lever models to one-touch superautomatics.
Esprit Holdings
Esprit Holdings Ltd (Esprit, edc) is a Hong Kong-listed apparel company that shifted in 2024-2025 from direct retail to an asset-light licensing model after insolvency proceedings across European, Canadian, and US subsidiaries, reporting FY2025 revenue of about HK$20 million.
Esti Ginzburg
Esti Ginzburg (אסתי גינזבורג), born 1990 in Tel Aviv, is an Israeli model and actress who appeared in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue 2009-2011, served two years in the IDF, and starred in Twelve (2010).
Estrella Damm
Estrella Damm is a 5.4% ABV Mediterranean lager brewed in Barcelona by S.A. Damm since 1876 from barley malt, rice, and hops; originally Estrella Dorada (1921), renamed 1991, and tied to FC Barcelona and summer Catalan marketing.
Ethanol as a food preservative
Ethanol as a food preservative: low-concentration or vapor-phase ethyl alcohol used to inhibit molds, yeasts, and bacteria, chiefly in bakery products; GRAS in the US (21 CFR 184.1293, GRN 151) and delivered via ethanol emitter sachets such as Ethicap.
Ethiopian coffee ceremony
The Ethiopian coffee ceremony, called buna maflat in Amharic, is a domestic ritual in which coffee is roasted, brewed in a clay jebena, and served in three rounds.
Ethiopian cuisine
Ethiopian cuisine: the food tradition of Ethiopia (wot stews, injera flatbread, berbere spice). Known for the three-round coffee ceremony (buna), doro wat national dish, fasting-driven vegan dishes, fermented foods, and t'edj honey wine.
Etiquette in Japan
Etiquette in Japan (reigi sahou, 礼儀作法) covers bowing, shoe removal, dining, gift-giving, and public-transport norms rooted in samurai-era reihō. Key facts: 15/45/90-degree bows, gifts of 1000-5000 yen, no tipping, no phone calls on trains.
Étouffée
Étouffée, often made as crawfish étouffée, is a Louisiana Cajun and Creole dish of shellfish or shrimp smothered in a thick, roux-based sauce and served over white rice.
Ettore Boiardi
Ettore (Hector) Boiardi, the real Chef Boyardee, was a Piacenza-born chef who headed the Plaza Hotel kitchen, opened Cleveland's Il Giardino d'Italia, and founded the Chef Boy-ar-dee canned Italian food company, sold in 1946 for $6 million.
Eugena Washington
Eugena Washington is an American model and actress who was Playboy's 2016 Playmate of the Year and finished third on America's Next Top Model in 2006.
Euphronios Krater
The Euphronios Krater, also called the Sarpedon Krater, is an Attic red-figure calyx-krater painted by Euphronios in Athens around 515 BCE, now displayed at the Archaeological Museum of Cerveteri, Italy.
European Capital of Culture
European Capital of Culture (ECoC), annual EU cultural title launched in 1985 by Melina Mercouri; Athens held the first year. Cities are selected six years ahead, receive the €1.5m Melina Mercouri Prize, and leverage about €900 million in cultural investment.
European cuisine
European cuisine: collective term for Europe's hundreds of regional and national foodways, from Mediterranean soffritto to French haute cuisine, shaped by the Columbian exchange, terroir labels, and current protein and flexitarian trends.
European Food Safety Authority
European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), EU agency founded 2002 under Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 providing independent risk assessment and scientific advice on food-chain risks, including pesticide peer review and MRLs, distinct from risk managers.
European textile artists
European textile artists use fiber, cloth, and stitch as a fine-art medium; the modern field emerged with the 1962 Lausanne Tapestry Biennial, which made stars of Eastern European artists like Magdalena Abakanowicz.
Eva Ekeblad
Eva Ekeblad (Eva De la Gardie), 1724–1786, Swedish countess and the first woman elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (1748), known for potato experiments producing flour, starch, powder, and alcohol.
Eva Herzigová
Eva Herzigová (born 1973, Litvínov) is a Czech supermodel of the 1990s, nicknamed Marilyn of the Nineties, famous for the 1994 Wonderbra 'Hello Boys' campaign, Guess and Victoria's Secret work, and Editor-at-Large at Vogue Czechoslovakia.
Eva Marcille
Eva Marcille, born Eva Pigford (1984, Los Angeles), won America's Next Top Model cycle 3 in 2004, then became an actress on The Young and the Restless, RHOA, and All the Queen's Men; distinct from Spanish actress Eva Marciel.
Evan Funke
Evan Funke (born 1978) is a Los Angeles chef and handmade-pasta specialist, trained in Bologna under Alessandra Spisni, chef of Felix, Mother Wolf, and the Beverly Hills restaurant Funke, and author of American Sfoglino.
Evaporated milk
Evaporated milk, also called unsweetened condensed milk, is canned milk with about 60% of water removed, homogenized and sterilized; defined by 21 CFR 131.130 (6.5% milkfat, 23% total solids), patented 1835, first commercially produced 1885.
Eve Gilles
Eve Gilles (Ève Gilles), Miss France 2024, is a French beauty queen from Dunkerque elected 16 December 2023 at Dijon; the first short-haired Miss France, a Lille mathematics student, later Miss Universe 2025 Top 30 and Miss Supranational 2026 first dauphine.
Evelyn Nesbit
Evelyn Nesbit (Florence Evelyn Nesbit, 1884–1967), American artists' model, chorus girl, and actress, a Gibson Girl model and early celebrity, known for the 1906 murder of Stanford White by her husband Harry Thaw, the 'Trial of the Century'.
Everyday life
Everyday life (French: quotidien) is the field of routine, taken-for-granted actions and experiences structuring daily existence, studied by sociology, history, and cultural theory through figures such as Lefebvre, de Certeau, Barthes, and Perec.