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Gift
Gift (social science): a transfer whose counterpart can be given but not demanded, defined by Alain Testart against exchange. Central concept of anthropology since Mauss's 1925 The Gift, with three obligations and institutions such as the potlatch and kula.
Giles Coren
Giles Coren (born 1969, Paddington, London), British restaurant critic and columnist for The Times since 2002, previously Tatler and the Independent on Sunday; Food and Drink Writer of the Year 2005, novelist of Winkler, TV presenter, and author of the podcast Giles Coren Has No Idea.
Giles Deacon
Giles Deacon (born 1969, Darlington) is a British couture designer and illustrator; founder of the Giles label (2003), British Designer of the Year winner, Ungaro creative director, and couture designer since 2016.
Gimbap (김밥)
Gimbap (김밥) is a Korean dish of seasoned rice and fillings such as spinach, egg, pickled radish, and beef rolled in dried laver. It differs from Japanese norimaki in seasoning, evolved through 1990s specialty shops and franchises, and recently boomed abroad via frozen exports.
Gimbels
Gimbels (Gimbel Brothers) was an American department store chain founded in 1842 in Vincennes, Indiana, by Adam Gimbel; largest US department store company by 1923, owner of Saks Fifth Avenue, Macy's rival, closed 1987.
Gimlet (cocktail)
The Gimlet is a gin cocktail with preserved lime juice, traditionally Rose's Lime Juice Cordial, first named in 1922 print. Also known as a vodka Gimlet or fresh-lime version, it traces to British scurvy-prevention lime rations after the 1867 Merchant Shipping Act.
Gin
Gin is a juniper-flavoured spirit (jenever, genever lineage) made by flavouring neutral agricultural alcohol with juniper berries, legally required to taste predominantly of juniper, produced by maceration or vapour-infusion redistillation and spanning London dry, Old Tom, Plymouth, navy strength, and contemporary styles.
Gin and tonic
Gin and tonic: a highball cocktail of gin and quinine-flavoured tonic water, born in British colonial India; first printed in 1868 at the Sealkote races, Erasmus Bond patented tonic water in 1858, and about 70 litres of tonic supply one antimalarial quinine dose.
Gin basil smash
Gin basil smash, also called Gin Pesto: a modern classic cocktail of gin, lemon juice, sugar syrup, and muddled basil, created by Jörg Meyer at Le Lion bar in Hamburg in 2008, an IBA official New Era cocktail.
Gin Craze
The Gin Craze was an early-18th-century London episode of mass cheap-gin drinking, roughly 1720 to 1751, prompting eight Gin Acts, Hogarth's Gin Lane, and later reassessment as a moral panic.
Ginger ale
Ginger ale is a sweetened, caffeine-free carbonated soft drink flavored with ginger, first made around 1851 in Belfast, Ireland, as a non-alcoholic counterpart to fermented ginger beer; dry-style Canada Dry, patented by John J. McLaughlin in 1907, dominates the category.
Ginger beer
Ginger beer is a ginger-flavored drink invented in mid-18th-century England from ginger and West Indies sugar, traditionally fermented with a "ginger beer plant" starter, once up to 11% ABV, now mostly a non-alcoholic soda and cocktail mixer.
Gingerbread
Gingerbread: spiced baked goods from crisp cookies to cakes and decorated Christmas houses. From Old French gingembrat (preserved ginger); earliest English recipes had no ginger, using honey, breadcrumbs, saffron, and pepper.
Gingerbread man
Gingerbread man: a human-shaped spiced Christmas cookie, also called Lebkuchenmann in Germany. Word from Old French gingembrat (preserved ginger); shape attributed to Elizabeth I; runaway tale published 1875 in St. Nicholas Magazine.
Gingham
Gingham (vichy check) is a plain-woven, yarn-dyed cotton fabric with even two-color checks, from Malay ginggang 'striped'; imported to Europe in the 17th century, made in Manchester, Lancashire, and Glasgow, and a recurring 1940s-50s and 2026 fashion trend.
Gino D'Acampo
Gino D'Acampo (born 1976, Torre del Greco, Naples) is an Italian chef and TV presenter in Britain, winner of I'm a Celebrity 2009, This Morning regular, restaurateur, and subject of denied 2025 misconduct allegations.
Gion Matsuri
Gion Matsuri (祇園祭), once called the Gion Goryō-e, is the month-long July festival of Yasaka Shrine in Kyoto, Japan, best known for its giant yamahoko floats.
Giorgio Armani
Giorgio Armani (1934–2025) was an Italian fashion designer who founded his Milan ready-to-wear label in 1975 with Sergio Galeotti, pioneered deconstructed unstructured tailoring built on the soft jacket, and built an independent empire worth over $10 billion.
Giovanni Ferrero
Giovanni Ferrero (born 1964), Italian billionaire businessman and novelist, President of Ferrero International S.A., maker of Nutella, Kinder, and Tic Tac; co-CEO from 1997, Executive Chairman from 2017, led acquisitions including Nestlé US confectionery and WK Kellogg.
Girdle
A girdle is a close-fitting elastic undergarment, the twentieth-century descendant of the corset, that shapes the body below the waist and holds up stockings with attached garters.
Girl Scout Cookies
Girl Scout Cookies are seasonal cookies sold annually by Girl Scouts in the United States through the Girl Scout Cookie Program, begun in 1917, commercially baked since 1936 by ABC Bakers and Little Brownie Bakers, with about 200 million boxes sold yearly.
Givaudan
Givaudan, Swiss flavour and fragrance maker founded 1895 in Zürich by Léon and Xavier Givaudan, headquartered in Vernier; divisions Taste & Wellbeing and Fragrance & Beauty; 2025 sales CHF 7,472 million; industry leader versus IFF, Symrise, DSM-Firmenich.
Givenchy
Givenchy, French luxury fashion house founded in Paris in 1952 by Hubert de Givenchy, known for the Separables, L'Interdit, and Audrey Hepburn; LVMH-owned since 1988, creative director Sarah Burton since 2024.
Gleaning
Gleaning is the collection of surplus food, traditionally crops left after harvest, for redistribution to people in need; also called food recovery or rescue. Ancient roots in Leviticus and Ruth, modern US liability law (Emerson Act 1996, FDIA 2023), and documented programs from county projects to Farm to Family.
Glenn Martens
Glenn Martens (born 1983) is a Belgian fashion designer, creative director of Maison Margiela since January 2025 and of Diesel from 2020 to 2026, previously head of Y/Project and a two-time ANDAM Grand Prix winner.
glo (tobacco brand)
glo is a heated tobacco product brand owned by British American Tobacco, which heats rather than burns tobacco sticks and launched in Japan in 2016.
Global Hunger Index
The Global Hunger Index (GHI) is a peer-reviewed annual composite index, originally by IFPRI and now published by Welthungerhilfe, IFHV, and Helvetas, scoring countries 0-100 on undernourishment, child stunting, wasting, and mortality; the 2026 global score is 18.1 (moderate).
Gloria Diaz
Gloria Maria Aspillera Diaz, Filipino actress and Miss Universe 1969, the first Filipina to win the crown; award-winning film and TV career from 1974, including Jose Rizal, Batang West Side, and Netflix's Insatiable.
Glove
Glove: a separate-fingered hand covering, from Tutankhamun's linen pair and ceremonial regalia to surgical, baseball, protective, cold-weather and sensor gloves; mittens enclose the fingers together.
Glucosyl hesperidin
Glucosyl hesperidin (GH, monoglucosyl hesperidin, CitraPeak) is an enzymatically glucosylated, water-soluble form of the citrus flavonoid hesperidin; GRAS (GRN 901, 2020) in the US and EU novel food authorized 2025.