Farm Fresh
"Farm fresh" (or "farm-fresh") has long been a clichéd food phrase; farms grow food and no one advertises anything except "fresh." The image (in such terms as…
Farm-to-Table
"Farm-to-table" (or, without the hyphens, "farm to table") is a term that indicates that the restaurant (or other place of eating) uses fresh ingredients, locally grown and…
Farmer John Cheese (parmesan cheese)
"Parmesan" cheese is sometimes called "Farmer John" cheese by children. "Farmer John cheese" has been cited in print since at least 1998. Wikipedia:…
Farmers’ Market
A "farmers' market" (also spelled "farmers market") is a retail market where farmers can sell their foods to the public. Farmers' markets have existed in some form for…
Fartichoke (fart + Jerusalem artichoke)
The Jerusalem artichoke (or sunchoke) has been nicknamed "fartichoke" because, as some suggest, the dietary fiber inulin can't be properly digested and causes an Ex-Lax-like effect…
Fast Fine (fast food/fast casual + fine dining)
The restaurant concept of "fast fine" (fast food/fast casual + fine dining) was created by restaurateur Pierre Panos, who opened his Fresh To Order (F2O) restaurant chain in 2005. F2O…
Fast Food (Fast Food Restaurant)
"Fast food" is a quickly prepared meal at a "fast food restaurant" -- such as a hamburger ("fast food") at McDonald's (a "fast food restaurant"). The…
Fat Shaming
Entry in progress -- B.P. Twitterlisie@lisiepeasiehttp://tinyurl.com/26r2nj - if i ever see this writer, i'm going to slap her for reducing an article on women's health to pure…
Fat Tax
A "fat tax" became an issue in the health care debate in 1993 (under U.s. President Bill Clinton) and 2009 (under U.S. President Barack Obama). A "fat tax" can be a tax directly…
Fatacular
"Fatacular" (fat + spectacular) means something or someone who is gloriously, spectacularly in fat. The word could refer to a person or a type of food. Urban Dictionaryfatacular One that…
Fauxnut (faux + cronut/donut)
A "fauxnut" (faux + donut) is an imitation donut. Danny DeVito was required to eat donuts for his role in the film Other People's Money (1991), but he didn't eat junk food. Mani…
FDA-hole (Food and Drug Administration + asshole)
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration regulates and supervises food and drug safety. Stephen Colbert, host of Comedy Central's The Colbert Report, popularized "FDA-hole" (Food and…
Feast of San Gennaro
The Feast of San Gennaro is probably the worst time to visit Little Italy, but nobody asks me. It's been held on Mulberry Street since September 1926 and is one of New York's most…
Febrewary (February + brew)
Some people put the "brew" in "February" and spell it "febrewary." "October is the great time for brewing ale, we believe, but we should have thought…
Femivore
Peggy Orenstein wrote "The Femivore's Delemma" for the New York (NY) Times Sunday Magazine of March 14, 2010. A "femivore" is a feminist farmer -- and not someone who eats…
Fermentastic (ferment + fantastic)
"Fermentastic" (ferment + fantastic) is a term that celebrates the "fantastic" process of fermentation. "Fermentastic" was cited once in print in 2008, and then…
Fetashist (feta + fetishist)
There is no feta (a Greek cheese) in the words "fetish" or "fetishist," but there are jokes. "Fetashist" (feta + fetishist) is a jocular portmanteau word.…
Fettuccine Alfredo
Fettuccine (a pasta dish with Parmesan cheese, butter and cream) had been served at Italian restaurants in the 1800s, but Alfredo di Lelio's restaurant Alfredo on the Via della Scrofa in Rome…
FHB (Family Hold Back); MIK (More In the Kitchen)
The initials "FHB" stand for "family hold back." When guests (especially unexpected guests) were served dinner and there was not enough food to go around, the family members…
Field-to-Fork
"Field-to-fork" is a popular food industry expression, referring to the entire process from when food is made ("field") to when food is consumed ("fork"). The term…