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Iced tea
Iced tea, tea served cold over ice, is an American staple popularized by Richard Blechynden at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair; about four-fifths of US tea consumption is iced, led by ready-to-drink brands like Pure Leaf and AriZona.
Iceland (supermarket)
Iceland Foods Ltd is a British frozen-food supermarket chain founded in 1970 by Malcolm Walker in Oswestry, Shropshire, headquartered in Deeside, Wales. Distinguished by its frozen focus, The Food Warehouse format, 2.2% UK grocery share, family ownership, and its 2026 dropped trademark dispute with the country Iceland.
Icelandic cuisine
Icelandic cuisine (íslensk matarhefð), the Cuisine of Iceland: a Nordic cuisine of lamb, fish, skyr, and rye shaped by whey-pickling, hákarl, svið, hangikjöt, geothermal greenhouses, and Dill's Michelin-starred New Nordic scene.
Icelandic national costume
Þjóðbúningurinn, the Icelandic national costume, is a family of traditional dress styles: five women's costumes (faldbúningur, peysuföt, upphlutur, skautbúningur, kyrtill) and two men's variants, worn on June 17 and at formal occasions.
Ichi-go ichi-e (一期一会)
Ichi-go ichi-e (一期一会), "one lifetime, one meeting," is a Japanese tea-ceremony phrase for treating each gathering as unrepeatable. Thought from Rikyū via Yamanoue Sōji ki (1588); the four-character phrase was coined by Ii Naosuke in Chanoyu ichie shū.
Ichijū-sansai (一汁三菜)
Ichijū-sansai (一汁三菜), "one soup, three sides," is the basic Japanese meal structure: rice, one soup, and three dishes (one main, two sides), excluding rice and pickles from the count. Rooted in Muromachi honzen cuisine, it underpins washoku and the teishoku set meal.
Icing (food)
Icing (also called frosting, especially in the US) is a sugar-based coating for cakes and cookies. Basic icing is confectioners' sugar plus liquid; frosting is thicker and whipped, icing thinner and glossier; royal icing dries hard for decorating.
Icing (game)
Icing (game): a 2010 American drinking game, also called Bros Icing Bros, in which a hidden or handed-over Smirnoff Ice forces the finder to kneel and chug it; carrying one allows an ice block.
Iconix Brand Group
Iconix Brand Group is an American brand management company (now Iconix International) owning roughly 30 consumer brands such as Candie's, Starter, Umbro, and Rocawear, licensing them to retailers and wholesalers; it was charged by the SEC in 2019 with accounting fraud, and former CEO Neil Cole was sentenced to prison in 2023.
Idli (இட்லி)
Idli (இட்லி), also idly, is a South Indian steamed cake from fermented rice and urad dal batter, leavened by Leuconostoc and Streptococcus. Earliest mention iddalige, c. 920 CE; modern form 10th–13th century; origins contested, possibly Indonesian kedli.
Ifugao wood carving
Ifugao wood carving is the carving tradition of the Ifugao people of the Cordillera mountains in northern Luzon, Philippines, best known for the bulul, a carved figure guarding rice granaries.
IGA (Canada)
IGA, the Independent Grocers Alliance, is a grocery store banner in Canada operated by Sobeys since 1998, with more than 250 stores in Quebec where it leads supermarket market share.
Iga ware
Iga ware (伊賀焼, Iga-yaki) is Japanese stoneware made in Iga, Mie Prefecture, best known for boldly distorted tea ceramics of the Momoyama period and modern donabe pots.
Igbo proverbs
Igbo proverbs, called ilu or ilu okwu, are the condensed wise sayings of the Igbo people of southeastern Nigeria, used in everyday speech and ceremony to advise, warn, and teach moral values.
IHOP
IHOP (International House of Pancakes), American family-dining chain founded July 7, 1958 in Toluca Lake, California by Al and Jerry Lapin; known for pancakes and all-day breakfast, 1,824 restaurants, 99% franchised, owned by Dine Brands Global.
Ike's Love & Sandwiches (restaurant)
Ike's Love & Sandwiches is an American sandwich shop chain founded in 2007 in San Francisco, known for hot sandwiches on Dutch Crunch bread with Dirty Sauce.
Illy
Illy (illycaffè S.p.A.) is an Italian coffee company founded in Trieste in 1933 by Francesco Illy, known for the Illetta espresso machine, pressurized coffee packing, the first commercial coffee pods, a nine-variety 100% Arabica blend, and B Corp certification since 2021.
Imaan Hammam
Imaan Hammam is a Dutch fashion model of Moroccan and Egyptian descent, scouted at Amsterdam Central Station at 13, who opened Givenchy spring/summer 2014, has 26 Vogue covers, and is an Estée Lauder ambassador, distinct from the model Iman.
Iman (model)
Iman (born Iman Mohamed Abdulmajid, 1955, Mogadishu) is a Somali-American supermodel, muse to Yves Saint Laurent, wife of David Bowie, and founder of IMAN Cosmetics in 1994.
Imogen Thomas
Imogen Thomas (Imogen Mary Thomas), Welsh model born 1982 in Llanelli; Miss Wales 2003, Big Brother UK 2006 contestant (86 days), 2011 Ryan Giggs privacy case, later businesswoman in London.
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the food industry
COVID-19's impact on the food industry: simultaneous supply and demand shocks to food supply chains, meat plant closures, food-service collapse, transport disruption, and hunger risk from lost income.
Imperial kilns of Jingdezhen
The imperial kilns of Jingdezhen, known as the Yuyichang in the Ming and Yuyaochang in the Qing, fired porcelain exclusively for China's imperial courts from 1369 to 1911.
Imperial Porcelain Factory
The Imperial Porcelain Factory (Императорский фарфоровый завод) is a porcelain manufactory in Saint Petersburg, founded in 1744 by Empress Elizabeth, the first porcelain works in Russia and still operating today.
Impossible Foods
Impossible Foods: Redwood City, California plant-based meat company founded in 2011 by Pat Brown; maker of the Impossible Burger, whose signature soy leghemoglobin heme ingredient is fermented in engineered yeast.
In vino veritas
In vino veritas (ἐν οἴνῳ ἀλήθεια), Latin proverb meaning "in wine, truth": from Alcaeus via Zenobius and Pliny, popularized by Erasmus; experiments find alcohol lowers inhibition but not lying costs.
In-N-Out Burger
In-N-Out Burger: American fast-food chain founded 1948 in Baldwin Park, California, by Harry and Esther Snyder as the state's first drive-thru hamburger stand; family-owned by Lynsi Snyder, non-franchised, 400+ locations, fresh never-frozen beef and no freezers or microwaves.
Ina Garten
Ina Garten, born 1948, is the Barefoot Contessa: a Food Network host and author of 14 cookbooks plus the 2024 memoir Be Ready When the Luck Happens. She left the White House OMB in 1978 to buy a Hamptons specialty food store, sold it in 1996, and launched a Vox Media podcast in 2026.
InBev
InBev, the 2004-2008 Belgian-Brazilian brewing group formed by merging Interbrew and AmBev; acquired Anheuser-Busch for USD 52 billion in 2008 and became Anheuser-Busch InBev.
Inca calendar
The Inca calendar was the timekeeping system of the Inca Empire centered on Cuzco, using twelve lunar months kept in step with the solar year by a thirteenth month.
Inca Kola
Inca Kola, also called the Golden Kola, is a yellow lemon verbena-flavored Peruvian soft drink created in 1935 by Joseph Robinson Lindley; since 1999 a Coca-Cola and Lindley joint venture, it leads Peru's soft drink market.