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Grant Achatz
Grant Achatz (born 1974) is an American modernist chef, CIA graduate, and co-founder of Chicago's three-Michelin-star Alinea, Next, and The Aviary; stage IV tongue cancer survivor, James Beard Outstanding Chef 2008.
Grape-Nuts
Grape-Nuts is a Post Consumer Brands breakfast cereal introduced in 1897 by C.W. Post, made from whole-grain wheat and barley with no grapes or nuts; known for dense crunchy nuggets, high fiber, and New England grape-nut ice cream.
Grappa
Grappa is the Italian pomace brandy, a protected geographical indication distilled from fermented grape marc grown and processed only in Italy. Bottled at 37.5% vol minimum, aged styles include invecchiata and riserva.
Grasim Industries
Grasim Industries Limited, Aditya Birla Group flagship founded 25 August 1947 at Nagda, India, as a textile maker; now global viscose staple fibre leader, India's largest caustic soda producer, with UltraTech Cement, Birla Opus paints (1,332 MLPA), and Aditya Birla Capital.
Grass jelly
Grass jelly (仙草, cincau, เฉาก๊วย, sương sáo) is a black jelly dessert from South China made by boiling Platostoma palustre with starch and alkali; eaten across Asia as cubes, drinks, and toppings.
Gratin
Gratin: a French oven-baked dish defined by its browned crust of cheese or breadcrumbs, from gratter (to scrape). Includes gratin dauphinois, technique, and gratin versus casserole distinctions.
Gratuity
A gratuity (tip) is a voluntary customer payment to a service worker, legally distinct from a service charge. Covers history, US tip credit ($2.13 tipped minimum), weak evidence tips reward service, and the 2025-2028 No Tax on Tips deduction.
Gravy
Gravy: a sauce made from meat or poultry drippings, a liquid such as milk or broth, and a thickener like roux; from Old French grave; includes pan gravy, British brown gravy, Southern white gravy, and Italian-American Sunday gravy.
Grayson Perry
Grayson Perry (born 1960, Chelmsford) is a British ceramicist, tapestry maker and Turner Prize 2003 winner, known for his alter ego Claire, The Vanity of Small Differences tapestries, Grayson's Art Club, and 2023 knighthood.
Greasy spoon
Greasy spoon: a small, cheap café or diner serving fried food; informal term first recorded 1906, with an 1850 German-linked instance. British "caff" culture, decline, and new-wave revival.
Great American Beer Festival
Great American Beer Festival (GABF), annual Denver craft beer festival and blind-judged competition run by the Brewers Association since 1982; founded in Boulder by Charlie Papazian, moved outdoors to Levitt Pavilion in 2026.
Great Bengal famine of 1770
Great Bengal famine of 1770, Chhiattor-er Monnontor (Famine of '76), a catastrophic famine in Company-ruled Bengal killing about 10 million, one third of the population, while the East India Company kept collecting revenue.
Great Bombay textile strike
The Great Bombay textile strike, also known as the Great Mumbai textile strike, was an 18-month strike by about 250,000 cotton textile workers in Bombay beginning in 1982.
Great British Beer Festival
The Great British Beer Festival (GBBF), CAMRA's flagship beer festival since 1977, styled the biggest pub in the world; home of the Champion Beer of Britain; cancelled for 2024 (venue) and 2026 (costs).
Great British Menu
Great British Menu: BBC Two cookery competition produced by Optomen since 2006, in which professional chefs compete through regional heats to cook at a themed banquet; 21 series, judges Tom Kerridge, Lorna McNee, Phil Wang.
Great Chinese Famine
Great Chinese Famine (三年大饥荒), 1959–1961 famine during the Great Leap Forward; largest in human history with an estimated 16.5–45 million excess deaths, driven mainly by procurement and Leap policies rather than weather.
Great Famine of 1315–1317
The Great Famine of 1315–1317, also called the European Great Famine, was the worst subsistence crisis in European history, hitting northern Europe from Ireland to Poland after torrential rains of 1314–1316 ruined harvests and raised English wheat prices eightfold, killing roughly 10–20 percent of England's population.
Great Famine of 1876–1878
The Great Famine of 1876–1878, also called the Madras famine, was a famine in British India that killed more than five million people after the monsoon failed.
Great Fleet
The Great Fleet was an account by S. Percy Smith of Māori arrival in New Zealand in seven canoes from Tahiti in 1350 CE, taught for a century before scholars showed it was largely false.
Great Tapestry of Scotland
The Great Tapestry of Scotland is a 143-metre crewel embroidery of 160 linen panels depicting Scotland's history, stitched by over 1,000 volunteers. Conceived by Alexander McCall Smith and designed by Andrew Crummy, it is displayed at a purpose-built visitor centre in Galashiels, opened in 2021.
Greek cuisine
Greek cuisine: traditional food of Greece based on olive oil, grains, legumes, seafood, and wine, part of the Mediterranean diet, shaped by ancient, Byzantine, Ottoman, and 1920s Asia Minor refugee influences.
Greek dress
Greek dress spans the chiton, peplos, and himation of antiquity, Byzantine court costume, and the regional Ottoman-era folk costumes signaling status, age, and marital status. King Otto's foustanela and Queen Amalia's 1837 dress became the invented national costumes now worn ceremonially.
Greek salad
Greek salad, called horiatiki ("village salad") in Greece, is a salad of tomato, cucumber, onion, and feta dressed with olive oil and oregano, containing no lettuce.
Green bean casserole
Green bean casserole: American Thanksgiving side dish, originally "Green Bean Bake," created 1955 by Dorcas Reilly at Campbell's Camden test kitchen; six ingredients including Cream of Mushroom soup and French-fried onions; served in about 20 million US households each Thanksgiving.
Green coffee extract
Green coffee extract, from unroasted Coffea beans, is a weight-loss supplement rich in chlorogenic acids and caffeine; clinical evidence shows only small, poorly supported effects and a retracted key trial.
Green curry (แกงเขียวหวาน)
Green curry (แกงเขียวหวาน, kaeng khiao wan, "sweet-green curry") is a central Thai coconut-milk curry built on a paste of fresh green bird's-eye chilies, garlic, galangal, lemongrass, and shrimp paste; spicier than red curry, documented from early twentieth-century Bangkok court recipes.
Green glazed pottery of Atzompa
Green glazed pottery of Atzompa (barro verde) is lead-glazed emerald-green ceramic from Santa María Atzompa, Oaxaca, made for at least 400 years with greta glaze, two firings, and pastillaje decoration, now adapting to lead-free standards.
Green papaya salad
Green papaya salad (som tam, Lao tam som/tam maak hoong, Khmer bok l'hong, Vietnamese gỏi đu đủ) is a pounded salad of shredded unripe papaya with chilies, lime, fish sauce, and fermented seasonings, of Lao origin and central to Isan and Lao cuisine, with Thai, Lao, Cambodian, and Vietnamese variants.
Green sauce
Green sauce (salsa verde, sauce verte, Grüne Soße) is a category of cold, mostly uncooked herb- or tomatillo-based sauces: Italian caper-anchovy salsa verde, Argentine chimichurri, Mexican tomatillo salsa, French herb mayonnaise, and Frankfurt's seven-herb EU-protected specialty.
Green tea
Green tea (绿茶) is unoxidized Camellia sinensis tea, fixed by steaming or pan-firing. Oldest of the six Chinese tea categories; four Chinese types, Ming-era loose-leaf shift, EGCG content, and brewing temperatures distinguish it.