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Alfalfa Sprouts
Tender, threadlike sprouts of the alfalfa legume — fresh, mildly nutty, and mostly used raw in sandwiches and salads, despite occasional safety concerns about raw sprouts.
Looking for 14-letter foods? Here are 13 foods that fit — each linked to a full profile.
Letters are counted across the whole name with spaces, hyphens, apostrophes, and diacritics excluded. "Apple Pie" is 8 letters; "Boeuf Bourguignon" is 16.
List of 14-letter Foods
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Beef Stroganoff
A Russian dish of sautéed beef strips in a sour cream sauce — allegedly created for Count Stroganov's household in St. Petersburg in the 1800s; now a globally adapted comfort dish served over egg noodles or rice.
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Beef Wellington
A British celebration dish of beef tenderloin coated in mushroom duxelles and wrapped in puff pastry — elegant to serve, technically demanding to cook correctly.
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Croque-Monsieur
France's definitive hot sandwich — a grilled ham and cheese toastie topped with béchamel sauce and more cheese, then gratinéed until golden; add a fried egg on top and it becomes a croque-madame; a staple of French café menus since the early 20th century.
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Kung Pao Chicken
A classic Sichuan stir-fry of diced chicken, dried chillies, Sichuan peppercorns, and peanuts in a tangy sauce — one of the most widely known Chinese dishes internationally, with a troubled name history.
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Pandanus Leaves
Long sword-shaped tropical leaves used as the vanilla of Southeast Asia — adding a distinctive grassy, nutty, faintly floral aroma to rice, sweets, and curries.
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Parmesan Cheese
An aged, hard cow's-milk cheese made for centuries in northern Italy — the most-imitated cheese in the world, with the genuine *Parmigiano-Reggiano* protected by EU law.
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Taleggio Cheese
A pungent washed-rind Italian cheese from Lombardy with a creamy interior and meaty flavor — a 1,000-year-old farmhouse cheese that's now one of Italy's most prestigious DOP-protected cheeses.
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Threadfin Bream
A small pinkish reef fish from Indo-Pacific waters — the workhorse of Southeast Asian fish balls and surimi, with sweet, delicate white flesh.
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Tinned Mackerel
Atlantic or Pacific mackerel canned in oil, brine, or tomato sauce — a deeply nutritious pantry staple with high omega-3 content at a fraction of the cost of fresh fish.
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Tres Leches Cake
Latin America's most beloved celebration cake — a light sponge soaked in a mixture of three milks (evaporated milk, condensed milk, and cream) until saturated, then topped with whipped cream; improbably rich yet impossibly light.
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Turkish Delight
Soft, jewel-coloured cubes of cornstarch-and-sugar gel flavoured with rosewater, lemon, or mint — one of the world's oldest confections; made in Istanbul for 500+ years and immortalised in C.S. Lewis's *The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe*.
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Victoria Sponge
Britain's quintessential celebration cake — two light, equal-weight sponge layers sandwiched with raspberry jam and whipped cream (or buttercream), dusted with icing sugar; named after Queen Victoria, who ate a slice of sponge cake with her afternoon tea, and now judged at every village fête in Britain.
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