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Hunan cuisine
Hunan cuisine (湘菜, Xiang cuisine) is one of China's Eight Great Cuisines, drawn from the Xiang River, Dongting Lake, and Western Hunan styles; sour-spicy, oil-heavy rice food with duojiao yutou and stir-fried yellow beef as representative dishes.
Hunar Cafe and Billiards
Hunar Cafe and Billiards (Kurdish: چایخانەو بلیاردی هونەر) is a cafe and billiards venue on Goran Street in central Sulaymaniyah, Iraq, pairing a teahouse with billiards tables.
Hungarian cuisine
Hungarian cuisine: Central European cooking tradition of the Carpathian Basin, defined by paprika, onion-fat stewing bases, goulash and halászlé, shaped by German, Italian, Ottoman, and Habsburg influences.
Hungryhouse
Hungryhouse (hungryhouse.co.uk) was a UK online takeaway ordering marketplace founded in 2006, owned by Delivery Hero from 2011 and sold to Just Eat for £239.5 million in 2018 after a CMA phase 2 clearance.
Hunter valley
Hunter valley, NSW: valley of the Hunter River north of Sydney, home of the Wonnarua people, Australia's oldest commercial wine region (Semillon, Shiraz), and a major coal mining and energy economy.
Hunts Point Food Distribution Center
The Hunts Point Food Distribution Center is a 329-acre wholesale food campus in the South Bronx, New York City, handling about 4.5 billion pounds of food annually.
Hurley International
Hurley International: American surf and skate apparel brand founded by Bob Hurley in Costa Mesa, California (surfboards from 1979, clothing 1998/1999), owned by Nike 2002–2019 and by Bluestar Alliance since December 2019.
Hurricane (cocktail)
Hurricane: a rum-heavy New Orleans cocktail created at Pat O'Brien's in the 1940s from wartime rum surplus; rum, passion fruit syrup (fassionola), and lemon juice, served in a hurricane-lamp-shaped glass.
Hush Puppies
Hush Puppies is an American footwear brand of casual, comfort-focused shoes launched in 1958 by Wolverine World Wide, with a basset hound mascot and licensed sales worldwide.
Huy Fong Foods
Huy Fong Foods, founded 1980 by Vietnamese refugee David Tran in Los Angeles, makes rooster-logo Sriracha, Chili Garlic, and Sambal Oelek sauces; known for no advertising, the Underwood Ranches lawsuit, and recurring shortages.
Hy-Vee
Hy-Vee: employee-owned Midwestern supermarket chain founded 1930 in Beaconsfield, Iowa by Charles Hyde and David Vredenburg; over 550 locations in nine states, $13 billion sales, West Des Moines headquarters.
Hyakumonogatari
Hyakumonogatari (百物語) was an Edo-period Japanese pastime in which participants told one hundred ghost stories in one sitting, extinguishing a light after each, expecting a supernatural event.
Hyderabadi biryani
Hyderabadi biryani, from Hyderabad, India, is a dum-cooked kacchi-style dish of raw marinated meat and basmati rice from Nizam-era kitchens, distinct from Lucknowi pakki and Kolkata potato biryanis.
Hydrocolloid dressing
Hydrocolloid dressing, also called hydrocolloid wound dressing or patch (水胶体敷料), is a two-layer adhesive dressing of CMC, pectin, or gelatin with a polyurethane backing that gels with exudate to keep wounds moist, used for pressure injuries, minor burns, and acne.
Hydrolyzed poultry protein
Hydrolyzed poultry protein, a peptide-rich ingredient from enzymatically hydrolyzed poultry protein or by-products, used as protein source and flavoring; GRAS via GRN 1132 (Norilia AS), FDA no questions Jan 29, 2024.
Hydrolyzed sardine protein
Hydrolyzed sardine protein, also called sardine peptide (Valtyron), is an enzyme-hydrolyzed sardine muscle protein ingredient; GRAS via FDA GRN 360 (Senmi Ekisu, 2011), EFSA-safe to 0.6 g/serving.
Hydrox
Hydrox is the original creme-filled chocolate sandwich cookie, launched in 1908 by Sunshine Biscuits, four years before Oreo. Discontinued by Keebler in 1999, it was revived by Leaf Brands in 2015 with a kosher, vegan-certified formula.
Hygge
Hygge is a Danish word roughly meaning coziness or well-being, originating in old Norwegian and adopted into Danish in the late 18th century. It became an international lifestyle trend in 2016-17 and entered the Oxford English Dictionary in 2017.
Hypermarket
Hypermarket: very large self-service store combining supermarket food retail with general merchandise, defined as over one third food sales and 2,500 m² or more. Invented by Carrefour at Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois, France, 15 June 1963; now losing share to other grocery channels.
Hypoallergenic
Hypoallergenic is an unregulated marketing claim on cosmetics meaning fewer allergic reactions; the FDA sets no definition, and studies found most hypoallergenic moisturizers still contain known contact allergens.
Ian Schrager
Ian Schrager is the American hotelier and entrepreneur who co-founded Studio 54 with Steve Rubell in 1977 and invented the boutique hotel with Morgans in 1984, later creating EDITION with Marriott and the PUBLIC brand.
Ice cream
Ice cream: frozen, aerated dessert of dairy fat, sugar and ice, legally defined in the US at 10% milkfat; ancient origins, industrialized after 1851 (Fussell) and 1926 continuous freezer.
Ice cream cone
Ice cream cone: edible wafer or waffle container for ice cream, popularized at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair. Types include waffle, sugar, and cake cones; earlier patents by Valvona (1902) and Marchiony (1903).
Ice cream float
Ice cream float (also ice cream soda, spider): a scoop of ice cream, usually vanilla, in a fizzy soft drink such as root beer or cola. Credited to Robert M. Green, Philadelphia, 1874; foam comes from soda carbon dioxide stabilized by dairy proteins and fat.
Ice cream sandwich
An ice cream sandwich is a frozen dessert of ice cream between two baked goods, usually thin chocolate wafers, born as late 19th century New York street food.
Ice pack
Ice pack: reusable water-gel cold packs, instant chemical packs, and PCM packs used to cool injuries, food, and cold chain shipments. Distinguished by propylene glycol gel fill, endothermic ammonium nitrate instant packs, and FDA food regulation of packaged ice.
Ice pop
Ice pop: frozen flavored water or juice on a stick, also called ice lolly, paleta, or ice block; Popsicle is a brand. Accidentally invented by Frank Epperson in 1905, patented 1924.
Ice wine
Ice wine (Eiswein, vin de glace): dessert wine from grapes frozen on the vine and pressed frozen, per OIV rules at −7°C or colder. Made in Canada's Niagara and Okanagan, Finger Lakes, and Mosel; first recorded in Franconia in 1794, first commercial Canadian Icewine 1983.
Icebox
Icebox: insulated wooden cabinet, tin or zinc lined, cooled by a delivered block of ice in its top compartment; the non-mechanical predecessor of the electric refrigerator, replaced in US homes mainly after the 1927 GE Monitor-top.
Iced coffee
Iced coffee is coffee brewed hot and served cold over ice, distinct from cold brew. Origins include the 1840s Algerian mazagran and an 1887 US recipe; today one in three out-of-home coffees worldwide is ordered cold.