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French press
French press (cafetière, press pot, coffee plunger): a manual immersion coffee brewer with a mesh plunger, patented from the 1852 Mayer-Delforge Paris design through the 1929 Calimani-Moneta Italian patents and 1958 Bondanini version; coarse grind, about four minutes steep, 93 °C water, full-bodied unfiltered coffee.
French toast
French toast, called pain perdu ("lost bread") in France, is bread dipped in egg and milk and fried. Traced to Roman Apicius, named in England c. 1650, popularized in America by French immigrants.
French wine
French wine: wine from France, second-largest world producer behind Italy with 792,000 ha of vines, first in export value (€12.0 bn, 2023), governed by the AOC/AOP appellation system across 17 regions.
French wine grape varieties
French wine grape varieties are the Vitis vinifera cultivars of French origin, defining Bordeaux, Burgundy, the Rhône, the Loire, and Alsace; 298 are cataloged, but 20 cover about 87% of plantings.
Fricassee
Fricassee (French fricassée) is a white stew of cut-up meat, usually chicken or veal, seared without browning, simmered in stock, and served in a creamy white sauce; the English word dates to 1568.
Frida Gustavsson
Frida Gustavsson, Swedish actress and former model born 1993 in Stockholm, played Freydis Eriksdotter in Netflix's Vikings: Valhalla; a former Victoria's Secret and Valentino couture model, she won a 2025 Kristallen award for Faithless.
Fried chicken
Fried chicken: chicken pieces coated in batter or breading and deep-fried, developed in the American South from Scottish and West African traditions; regional styles include Nashville hot, Korean double-fried, and Japanese karaage.
Fried dough
Fried dough: sweet foods made by deep-frying flour-based dough in fat or oil, also called doughnuts, fry bread, or youtiao; defined by dough (not batter), festive origins, and three dough categories.
Fried egg
A fried egg is a whole egg cooked in a pan with butter or oil; styles include sunny side up, over easy, over medium, and over hard, distinguished by flipping and yolk doneness, with FDA guidance of 2 to 3 minutes per side.
Fried ice cream
Fried ice cream, also called deep-fried ice cream, is a dessert of hard-frozen ice cream coated in cereal, crumbs, or tempura batter and briefly deep-fried, popular in Mexican and Japanese restaurant styles.
Fried onion burger
Fried onion burger, also called Oklahoma onion burger or Depression burger: a smash-style hamburger from 1920s El Reno, Oklahoma, in which thinly sliced onions are pressed into a small beef patty, originally a 5-cent Depression-era way to stretch beef.
Friendly's
Friendly's is an American family restaurant and ice cream chain founded in 1935 in Springfield, Massachusetts by the Blake brothers. Once 850 restaurants, now about 87 in 11 Eastern states; restaurants under Brix/Legacy Brands, ice cream brand owned by Dairy Farmers of America.
Friendship bracelet
Friendship bracelet: handmade knotted or beaded token of friendship, a macramé-style craft. Made from cotton embroidery floss, rooted in Central American weaving, revived by Taylor Swift's Eras Tour.
Friendship Day
Friendship Day, or International Day of Friendship, is a UN observance on 30 July proclaimed in 2011 (A/RES/65/275), originating with the 1958 World Friendship Crusade in Paraguay; other countries celebrate on 20 July, the first Sunday of August, or 14 February.
Frikandel
Frikandel (also frikadel, curryworst): skinless deep-fried Dutch/Belgian minced-meat snack, invented 1954 in Dordrecht by Gerrit de Vries; smooth 18 cm form by Bekkers 1958; ~600 million eaten yearly in the Netherlands.
Frito pie
Frito pie, also called Fritos chili pie, is an American dish of Fritos corn chips topped with chili, cheese, and onions, served in a bag or baked as a casserole; its origin is disputed between Santa Fe, New Mexico and Texas.
Frito-Lay
Frito-Lay, PepsiCo's convenient foods unit formed from the 1961 Frito Company and H.W. Lay merger and the 1965 Pepsi-Cola merger, makes Lay's, Doritos, Cheetos, Tostitos, and Fritos; headquartered in Plano, TX, with roughly 60% of US salty snacks.
Fritos
Fritos is an American brand of corn chips created in 1932 by Charles Elmer Doolin in San Antonio, Texas, and produced since 1961 by Frito-Lay.
Frittata
Frittata: Italian flat, unfolded egg dish, name from friggere (to fry). Eggs beaten lightly with fillings like vegetables, cheese, ham, or pasta; cooked on both sides or finished under a broiler; served in wedges hot or at room temperature.
Fritter
Fritter: a food coated in batter and fried, from Old French friture. Includes fruit, vegetable, and meat fritters, pakora, tempura, and doughnut-family fried doughs; traced to Roman scriblita.
Fritware
Fritware, also called stonepaste or siliceous ware, is an artificial Islamic ceramic body of ground quartz, glass frit, and fine white clay, invented to imitate Chinese porcelain; its 10:1:1 recipe is recorded by Abu'l-Qasim Kashani in 1301.
Frock coat
The frock coat, also known as the Prince Albert coat, is a man's knee-length coat with full skirts, worn as the formal day coat of the Victorian era.
Froot Loops
Froot Loops (Fruit Loops is a common misspelling) is Kellogg's 1963 sweetened multigrain ring cereal with Toucan Sam mascot, six colors, one shared flavor, now owned by Ferrero via WK Kellogg and switching to natural colors by end of 2026.
Frosted Flakes
Frosted Flakes, also known as Frosties, is a sweetened corn flake breakfast cereal produced by Kellogg's, introduced in 1952 and marketed with the mascot Tony the Tiger.
Frozen custard
Frozen custard is an egg-yolk-enriched frozen dairy dessert, legally requiring at least 1.4% egg yolk solids in the US. Also called fresh frozen custard; invented commercially by the Kohr brothers at Coney Island in 1919 and popularized in Milwaukee, the self-styled custard capital.
Frozen Dead Guy Days
Frozen Dead Guy Days is a winter festival in Estes Park, Colorado, honoring Bredo Morstøl, a Norwegian man kept cryogenically frozen since his 1989 death.
Frozen food
Frozen food is food preserved at about −18 °C (0 °F), safe indefinitely though quality declines. Key facts: Clarence Birdseye's 1924 quick-freezing, 1930 Springfield retail debut, microbes dormant not killed, nutrition comparable to fresh.
Frozen yogurt
Frozen yogurt (fro-yo, froyo) is a frozen dairy dessert made from cultured milk with Lactobacillus bulgaricus and Streptococcus thermophilus, invented in the 1970s as H.P. Hood's Frogurt; lower in fat than ice cream but often as high in sugar.
Fruit
Fruit: botanically the ripened ovary of a flowering plant containing seeds; culinarily sweet or tart plant foods. Includes fruit types, the tomato vegetable question, Nix v. Hedden, and domestication.
Fruit preserves
Fruit preserves are shelf-stable spreads made from fruit, sugar, acid, and pectin, concentrated to at least 65 percent soluble solids under US standards; jam, jelly, preserves, marmalade, conserve, and fruit butter differ by fruit form and additions.