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Cookie Crisp

Cookie Crisp: chocolate chip cookie flavored breakfast cereal launched in 1977 by Ralston Purina, now made by General Mills (US) and Nestlé (UK, Middle East); mascots Cookie Jarvis, Cookie Crook, Chip the Wolf.

Cookie Lyon

Cookie Lyon is the fictional matriarch of Fox's Empire (2015-2020), played by Taraji P. Henson; ex-wife of Lucious Lyon, she served 17 years in prison, helped fund Empire Entertainment with $400,000, and won Henson a Golden Globe.

Cookie Monsta

Cookie Monsta, real name Tony Cook, was an English dubstep producer and DJ from Nottingham, a core artist on Circus Records known for a loud, bass-heavy sound.

Cookie Monster

Cookie Monster, known in German as Krümelmonster and in Dutch as Koekiemonster, is a blue Muppet character on Sesame Street, famous for his frenzied appetite for cookies.

Cookie Queens

Cookie Queens is a 2026 Alysa Nahmias documentary, executive-produced by Prince Harry and Meghan via Archewell, following four Girl Scouts ages 5-12 competing in the $800 million six-week cookie season; Sundance premiere, SXSW audience award, Roadside Attractions release.

Cooking

Cooking: applying heat to food to improve flavor, safety, and digestibility. Covers heat transfer, moist and dry cooking methods, nutrition effects, food safety temperatures, and the history of cooking from fire use to sous vide.

Cooking oil

Cooking oil, edible fat of vegetable, animal, or marine origin composed of glycerides of fatty acids; includes virgin, cold pressed, and refined grades. Smoke point depends on free fatty acids; used cooking oil is now a major biofuel feedstock.

Cooking show

Cooking show (also cookery show, cooking program): television program presenting food preparation in a studio kitchen, from BBC's 1946 Cookery and James Beard's I Love to Eat to Julia Child, the 1993 Food Network, competition franchises, and streaming docuseries.

Cooku with Comali

Cooku with Comali (குக் வித் கோமாளி), also Cook with Comali, is a Tamil comedy cooking competition on Star Vijay and Disney+ Hotstar, pairing celebrity cooks with comedians since 2019 across seven seasons.

Cooku with Comali season 6

Cooku with Comali season 6 (CWC 6), the 2025 Tamil comedy cooking competition on Star Vijay and Disney+ Hotstar, ran 4 May to 28 September 2025 with judges Damu, Rangaraj, and Koushik Shankar; Raju Jeyamohan won, Shabana Shajahan first runner-up.

Cooku with Comali season 7

Cooku with Comali season 7 (குக் வித் கோமாளி சீசன் 7), titled Double Trouble, is the 2026 seventh season of Star Vijay's Tamil cooking comedy reality show, with celebrity couples as contestants, hosts Rakshan and Shaalin Zoya, and judges Chef Damu, Madhampatty Rangaraj, Koushik Shankar, and Roja Selvamani.

Cookware and bakeware

Cookware and bakeware are kitchen vessels: cookware for stovetop or oven cooking (saucepans, skillets, stock pots), bakeware for oven baking (cake pans, muffin tins, baking sheets). Key distinctions include materials, heat behavior, PFAS coatings, and safety limits.

Cool

Cool (쿨) is a South Korean co-ed pop group formed in 1994, best known for summer sing-along hits like 'Sorrow' and 'Woman on the Beach'.

Cool & Dre

Cool & Dre: Miami hip-hop production duo of Marcello "Cool" Valenzano and Andre "Dre" Lyon, known for "Hate It or Love It," "New York," Fat Joe collaborations, and two credited Album of the Year nominations.

Cool Britannia

Cool Britannia: late-1990s British cultural boom and New Labour rebranding, punning on Rule, Britannia!; coined by Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band (1967), revived by Newsweek 1996, disavowed by Tessa Jowell in 2001.

Cool Devices

Cool Devices (クールディバイシス) is a Japanese hentai OVA anthology of 11 standalone episodes released 1995-1997, known for extreme bondage and non-consensual themes, released in English by Critical Mass Video in 2005.

Cool for the Summer

"Cool for the Summer" is a 2015 song by Demi Lovato, released as the lead single from the album Confident and produced by Max Martin and Ali Payami.

Cool Hand Luke

Cool Hand Luke (1967) is a Stuart Rosenberg prison drama starring Paul Newman as Luke Jackson, a Florida chain-gang rebel, based on Donn Pearce's 1965 novel, with George Kennedy's Oscar-winning Dragline and the famous "failure to communicate" line.

Cool jazz

Cool jazz: relaxed, arranged post-bebop jazz style of 1949–1955, launched by Miles Davis's Birth of the Cool nonet; also linked to West Coast jazz, Gil Evans, Mulligan, Brubeck, Chet Baker.

Cool Machine

Cool Machine (2026) is Colson Whitehead's novel concluding the Harlem Trilogy, following fence Ray Carney and Pepper through 1981, 1983, and 1986 New York, including a Waldorf Astoria heist; a New York Times bestseller and Kirkus Prize finalist.

Cool Whip

Cool Whip is Kraft Heinz's frozen whipped topping, invented by William A. Mitchell at General Foods' Birds Eye division and launched in 1966. Made of water, corn syrups, hydrogenated vegetable oil, and stabilizers, about 200 million tubs sell yearly.

Cool World

Cool World is a 1992 American live-action/animation hybrid film directed by Ralph Bakshi, in which a cartoonist is pulled into his own creation by the animated Holli Would, played by Kim Basinger.

Cool World (Chat Pile album)

Cool World is the 2024 second studio album by Oklahoma City sludge-metal band Chat Pile, released October 11, 2024 on The Flenser; ten tracks, 42:44, first album with outside producer Ben Greenberg, broadening God's Country's themes to global systemic violence.

Cooley High

Cooley High (1975) is Michael Schultz's comedy-drama, written by Eric Monte from his Cabrini-Green youth, following Preach and Cochise through 1964 Chicago; Motown soundtrack, $13 million gross, National Film Registry 2021.

Coolie (1983 Hindi film)

Coolie (कुली) is a 1983 Hindi action drama directed by Manmohan Desai and Prayag Raj, starring Amitabh Bachchan as railway porter Iqbal. Famous for Bachchan's near-fatal 1982 on-set accident, its rewritten happy ending, and being 1983's highest-grossing Hindi film.

Coolie (soundtrack)

Soundtrack of the 2025 Tamil film Coolie, composed by Anirudh Ravichander for Lokesh Kanagaraj's Rajinikanth film produced by Sun Pictures; eight songs including Chikitu, Monica, and Powerhouse.

Coolie (கூலி) (2025 film)

Coolie (coolie/கூली) is a 2025 Indian action thriller produced by Sun Pictures, starring Rajinikanth and directed by Lokesh Kanagaraj. It grossed ₹3.25 billion worldwide.

Coolie No. 1 (1995 film)

Coolie No. 1 (कुली नं. १) is a 1995 Hindi comedy directed by David Dhawan, starring Govinda and Karisma Kapoor; a Super Hit remake of Tamil Chinna Mapillai, remade in 2020 with Varun Dhawan.

Coolie No. 1 (2020 film)

Coolie No. 1 (कुली नम्बर 1), 2020 Hindi comedy directed by David Dhawan, starring Varun Dhawan and Sara Ali Khan; an adaptation of his 1995 Govinda hit, released on Amazon Prime Video 25 December 2020 to poor reviews.

Coolie Ranx

Coolie Ranx, born Obi-Ajula Ugbomah in London in 1965, is a British-born singer raised in New York who fronted the Toasters, co-founded Pilfers, and voiced Little Jacob in Grand Theft Auto IV.