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Hasung Lee
Hasung Lee (이하성), nicknamed Culinary Monster, is a Korean fine-dining chef, ex-chef de cuisine of Atomix New York, and runner-up of Culinary Class Wars season 2, losing the 2026 finale to Choi Kang-rok.
Hat
A hat is headwear with a brim around the crown, distinguishing it from the cap, serving protection from sun and rain while signaling rank, profession, and fashion.
Hatmaking
Hatmaking, also called hat making or hattery, is the craft of making felt, fabric and straw hats, distinct from millinery. Key facts: UK status Endangered, felt hood making commercially extinct, hat blocks central to shaping.
Haudenosaunee wampum recitation
Haudenosaunee wampum recitation is the practice of reading aloud, from memory and with a wampum belt in hand, the treaties, laws, and history its bead pattern records.
Hausa embroidery
Hausa embroidery is the decorative needlework tradition of the Hausa people of northern Nigeria, best known for the hand-embroidered men's robes called babban riga, documented from the 15th century onward.
Haute couture
Haute couture: the legally protected French appellation for made-to-measure, hand-crafted fashion, founded by Charles Frederick Worth in 1858, regulated since the 1945 decree, shown twice yearly at Paris Haute Couture Week.
Haute cuisine
Haute cuisine, also called alta cocina or grande cuisine, is the highest level of professional gastronomy, rooted in French codification by Carême and Escoffier, reshaped by nouvelle cuisine, and measured today by Michelin stars and dining guides.
Havana Club
Havana Club, Cuban rum brand created in 1934 by José Arechabala S.A.; expropriated around 1960, now made by the Pernod Ricard–Cuba Ron joint venture Havana Club International and, in the US only, by Bacardi in Puerto Rico.
Havarti
Havarti is a Danish semi-hard washed-curd cow's milk cheese with 30-60% fat in dry matter, produced since 1921, renamed from Dansk Tilsitterost in 1952 after Havarthigården, and protected as an EU PGI.
Hawaiian pizza
Hawaiian pizza, or pineapple pizza, is a ham-and-pineapple pizza created in 1962 by Sam Panopoulos at the Satellite Restaurant in Chatham, Ontario, Canada, and named for the canned pineapple brand he used, not Hawaii.
Hawaiian quilt
Hawaiian quilt (kapa kuiki): an appliqué bedcover tradition begun after New England missionaries introduced quilting, using symmetrical single-cloth plant designs and echo quilting; flag quilts after 1893 served as royalist protest, and guilds like Poakalani & Co. and the Hawaii Quilt Guild keep the art alive.
Hawker (trade)
Hawker (trade): a street seller of food or goods, itinerant or stall-based; also Spanish-American regatón. Covers colonial Lima's persecuted female regatonería, Singapore's licensing and hawker centres, and ILO informality data.
Hawker centre
A hawker centre, also known as a cooked food centre, is a sheltered food centre in Singapore where individual stalls sell affordable cooked food and drinks to the public.
Hazmat suit
Hazmat suit, short for hazardous materials suit, is full-body protective clothing against chemicals and infectious agents. US practice classifies suits into EPA/OSHA Levels A through D, Level A being fully encapsulating with SCBA.
Head cheese
Head cheese, also called brawn or souse, is a cold-cut terrine of braised pork head set in its own gelatin, with no dairy, made in Europe since the Middle Ages.
Head shaving
Head shaving, the removal of scalp hair by razor or clippers, also called tonsure in religious contexts; practiced for devotion (Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim, Christian), military practicality, hair loss management, punishment, and fashion, with results lasting one to three days.
Headgear
Headgear, also called headwear (頭飾), is any covering for the head, spanning hats, ceremonial headdresses, religious coverings, and protective helmets classified as Type I/II and Classes C, G, E under ANSI Z89.1, ISO 3873, and CSA Z94.1.
Headscarf
Headscarf: a cloth worn over the hair, also called hijab when worn for Muslim modesty. Predates Judaism, Christianity, and Islam; documented in ancient Mesopotamia; banned in French schools in 2004 and central to a $433bn modest fashion market.
Health effects of tea
The health effects of tea, also called the health benefits of tea, cover how drinking green, black, and other Camellia sinensis teas affects heart disease, cancer, weight, and cognition.
Health effects of wine
Health effects of wine: ethanol plus polyphenols such as resveratrol. Covers the French paradox, uncertain cardiovascular benefits, established cancer risks, beverage-type comparisons, and current drinking guidelines.
Health Goth
Health Goth: a 2013 Portland-born fashion aesthetic fusing monochrome technical sportswear with goth and cyberpunk imagery, founded as a Facebook community by Magic Fades' Mike Grabarek, Jeremy Scott, and Chris Cantino, distinct from the goth music subculture.
Heart Attack Grill
Heart Attack Grill: hospital-themed novelty restaurant founded by Jon Basso ('Dr. Jon') in Arizona in 2005, famous for Bypass Burgers including the Guinness-record 9,983-calorie Quadruple Bypass; Las Vegas Neonopolis venue closed May 2026.
Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination
Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination, the Met Costume Institute's 2018 exhibition curated by Andrew Bolton, paired Vatican papal vestments with Catholic-inspired fashion across 25 galleries, drawing 1,659,647 visitors, a Met record.
Hedi Slimane
Hedi Slimane (born 1968, Paris) is a French designer and photographer who led Dior Homme (2000-2007), Saint Laurent (2012-2016), and Celine (2018-2024), creating the skinny rock silhouette and growing Celine to about €2.6 billion in sales.
Hei-tiki
Hei-tiki is a small Māori neck pendant in the stylized form of a human figure, usually carved from pounamu, and handed down through generations as taonga.
Heidi Klum
Heidi Klum, German-American supermodel and TV host born 1973 in Bergisch Gladbach, won Model '92, was a Victoria's Secret Angel 1997-2010, hosted Project Runway and Germany's Next Top Model, judged America's Got Talent, and won a 2013 Emmy with Tim Gunn.
Heifer International
Heifer International, founded 1944 by Dan West as Heifers for Relief, is a Little Rock, Arkansas 501(c)(3) charity providing livestock and training to smallholder farmers, known for its Passing on the Gift model.
Heineken
Heineken, also known as Heineken Lager Beer, is a Dutch brewing company founded in Amsterdam in 1864 by Gerard Adriaan Heineken, best known for its flagship pale lager.
Heineken brands
Heineken brands are the beers and ciders of Heineken N.V., the Amsterdam brewer founded in 1864, whose 340-plus portfolio includes Heineken, Amstel, Tiger, Birra Moretti, Desperados, Sol, Tecate, Dos Equis, Cruzcampo, and Heineken 0.0.
Heineken N.V.
Heineken N.V., also Heineken's Bierbrouwerij Maatschappij, is a Dutch brewer founded in Amsterdam in 1864 by Gerard Adriaan Heineken; the world's second-largest beer producer, family-controlled via Heineken Holding N.V., with 340+ brands and EverGreen 2030 strategy.