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Food spoilage
Food spoilage is the microbial, enzymatic, and chemical deterioration that makes food unacceptable, distinct from pathogenic contamination. Key controls are temperature, water activity, and hurdle preservation; it drives 15–20% global food waste.
Food Standards Agency
The Food Standards Agency is an independent UK government department responsible for food safety and hygiene in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, established in 2000.
Food storage
Food storage, also called stored food or a food cache, covers practices like drying, canning, and refrigeration that keep food edible and safe between production and eating.
Food technology
Food technology applies science and engineering to the selection, preservation, processing, packaging, and distribution of food, drawing on chemistry, microbiology, and engineering to ensure safety, quality, and shelf life.
Food truck
Food truck: a readily movable, self-enclosed vehicle or trailer that prepares and sells food. Descends from 1866 chuck wagons and pushcarts; gourmet boom began with 2008's Kogi truck; startup costs $75,000-$250,000.
Food, Inc.
Food, Inc. (2008) is Robert Kenner's Oscar-nominated, Emmy-winning documentary on corporate control of the American food supply, based on Schlosser and Pollan; its 2024 sequel is Food, Inc. 2.
Foodie
Foodie: informal term for a food enthusiast who eats as a hobby, coined around 1980-1982 (Gael Greene, New York magazine; Harpers & Queen), studied by Johnston and Baumann for its democracy-versus-distinction tension, and considered dated by the mid-2020s.
Foodservice
Foodservice (food service) is the business of preparing and serving prepared food away from home, spanning restaurants, caterers, cafeterias, and institutional settings such as schools, hospitals, military, and hotels, a US market of about $1.41 trillion in 2025.
Fool's Gold Loaf
The Fool's Gold Loaf is a Denver sandwich of a hollowed loaf filled with a jar of peanut butter, a jar of jelly, and a pound of bacon, made famous by Elvis Presley's 1976 private-jet trip from Graceland.
Foot binding (缠足)
Foot binding (缠足, chansu) was a Han Chinese practice of binding girls' feet from about ages 4 to 8 to create the "three-inch golden lotus," lasting from the Song dynasty to 1949, documented archaeologically from Lady Huang Sheng's tomb and ended through late Qing, Republican, and Communist campaigns.
Foot Locker
Foot Locker, Inc. is an American athletic footwear and apparel retailer founded in 1974 by Kinney Shoe Corp. under Woolworth, with about 2,400 stores in 20 countries; acquired by DICK'S Sporting Goods, closing September 8, 2025.
Fop
A fop is an old-fashioned term for a vain man obsessively concerned with dress and manners. From mid-15th-century 'fool', its dandy sense dates to the 1670s; the 18th-century stereotype, its stage role, and successor the dandy.
Forced orgasm
A forced orgasm is a consensual BDSM practice in which a restrained partner is brought to orgasm while another person controls the stimulation, often with a vibrator.
Ford Models
Ford Models, the New York modeling agency founded by Eileen and Jerry Ford in 1946-1947, pioneered model management and the first modeling contracts, represented supermodels from Dovima to Naomi Campbell, and now runs offices in eight cities.
Forever 21
Forever 21: American fast-fashion brand founded 1984 in Los Angeles by Do Won and Jin Sook Chang as Fashion 21; peaked above $4 billion revenue, filed Chapter 11 in 2019 and 2025, closed all US stores May 2025, brand now licensed by Authentic Brands Group.
Fork
The fork is a tined eating utensil, also called a table fork. Last of the Western cutlery trio to reach the table: kitchen tool in antiquity, Byzantine court novelty, condemned by clergy, spread via Catherine de' Medici in 1533, four-tined by late 17th-century France, standard by the 19th century.
Formal wear
Formal wear: clothing prescribed for ceremonies, courts, and evening events, descending from European court dress. Key forms include judicial robes, white tie, and black tie, codified from the 1635 Judges' Rules onward.
Forrest Mars Sr.
Forrest Edward Mars Sr. was an American confectionery businessman who created M&M's in 1940 and built Mars, Incorporated into one of the world's largest candy companies.
Forshmak
Forshmak is a cold Ashkenazi Jewish appetizer of chopped salted herring, made as a pâté or spread with onion, hard-boiled egg, bread, apple, and butter or oil.
Fortified wine
Fortified wine: wine with added grape spirit (brandy), including Port, Sherry, Madeira, Marsala, and vermouth; timing of fortification sets sweetness, alcohol 15–22%, EU-defined category.
Fortnum & Mason
Fortnum & Mason: British luxury food retailer founded 1707 in Piccadilly, London by William Fortnum and Hugh Mason; only department store earning most revenue from food and drink; owned via Wittington by the Garfield Weston Foundation; holds two royal warrants and ships to 120+ countries.
Fortune cookie
Fortune cookie: a crisp folded wafer with a paper fortune, served in Chinese-American restaurants. Also called tsujiura senbei in Japan. Japanese origin, American invention, rare in China; WWII internment shifted production to Chinese-American makers.
Foster's Lager
Foster's Lager is an Australian lager brand, first brewed in Melbourne in November 1888 by American brothers William and Ralph Foster. It is a 5% ABV lager.
Four Loko
Four Loko is a Phusion Projects flavored malt beverage launched in 2005, originally containing alcohol, caffeine, guarana, and taurine in 23.5 oz cans at 11-12% ABV. FDA action in 2010 forced removal of stimulants; the non-caffeinated brand remains on sale at up to 14% ABV.
Fox-Wizel
Fox-Wizel Ltd. (פוקס-ויזל בע"מ), trading as Fox Group, is an Israeli fashion and sports retail group listed on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, operating Fox, Nike, Mango, and Foot Locker stores.
Francesco Risso
Francesco Risso (born 1982) is an Italian fashion designer, creative director of Marni 2016-2025 and of GU from 2026, known for gesamtkunstwerk shows, painted garments, and the Bureau of Imagination.
Francesinha
Francesinha, Porto's layered hot sandwich: bread with linguiça, sausage, ham and steak under melted cheese, flooded with spicy tomato-beer sauce. Created 1952 at A Regaleira by Daniel David da Silva, adapting the French croque monsieur; about 1,100 kcal.
Francis Mallmann
Francis Mallmann (Francisco José Mallmann) is an Argentine chef and restaurateur known for live-fire Patagonian cooking, with more than sixteen restaurants worldwide and seven books.
Francophile
Francophile: admirer of France, its people, culture, and language; synonym gallophile; English word from 1875 (Franco- + -phile); opposite francophobe, distinct from francophone.
Frangelico
Frangelico is an Italian hazelnut liqueur from Piedmont, launched in 1978 by the Barbero family and owned by Campari Group since 2010. Bottled at 20% ABV (formerly 24%), it blends toasted Tonda Gentile hazelnut distillate with cocoa, vanilla, and coffee, sold in a friar-shaped bottle.