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Sara Moulton
Sara Moulton, American chef, cookbook author, and TV personality; Julia Child protégé, Gourmet magazine executive chef, early Food Network star of Cooking Live, and host of PBS's Sara's Weeknight Meals since 2008.
Sashi Cheliah
Sashi Cheliah (Sashikumar Cheliah), Singapore-born Adelaide chef, won MasterChef Australia Season 10 in 2018 with a record 93/100, first Indian-origin winner; ex-Singapore STAR-unit police officer, Gaja by Sashi and Pandan Club restaurateur.
Slow Food
Slow Food is a global grassroots movement and NGO founded in Italy in 1986 by Carlo Petrini after a protest against a McDonald's near Rome's Spanish Steps; its 1989 Paris manifesto launched an international movement for "good, clean and fair" food, Presidia biodiversity projects, and eco-gastronomy in over 160 countries.
Somebody Feed Phil
Somebody Feed Phil is a Netflix food and travel documentary series hosted by Phil Rosenthal, creator of Everybody Loves Raymond; it premiered January 12, 2018, ran eight seasons and 49 episodes, and moves to YouTube in 2027 via a Banijay deal.
Sophie Dahl
Sophie Dahl (born 1977, London) is an English author and former model, granddaughter of Roald Dahl; known for Miss Dahl's Voluptuous Delights, the BBC2 series The Delicious Miss Dahl, and the Madame Badobedah children's books.
Stars' Top Recipe at Fun-Staurant (신상출시 편스토랑)
Stars' Top Recipe at Fun-Staurant (신상출시 편스토랑) is a South Korean cooking variety show on KBS2, first aired in 2019, where celebrities compete with original recipes.
State Fair of Texas
State Fair of Texas, annual 24-day fair at Fair Park in Dallas since 1886; 501(c)(3) nonprofit; home of Big Tex, the Texas Star Ferris wheel, and the Red River Rivalry; among the largest and longest-running state fairs in the United States.
Steak and Blowjob Day
Steak and Blowjob Day, also Steak & BJ Day, is a satirical unofficial internet holiday on March 14, one month after Valentine's Day, credited to Boston radio DJ Tom Birdsey in 2002. Not an official holiday; widely criticized as sexist.
Stephanie Land
Stephanie Land, American memoirist, author of Maid (2019) and Class (2023); Maid became a NYT bestseller and 2021 Netflix series about single-mother poverty and housecleaning.
Suiyuan shidan
Suiyuan shidan (随园食单, Recipes from the Garden of Contentment) is a Chinese cookbook by the Qing dynasty writer Yuan Mei, first published in 1792 and describing 326 dishes.
Supper
Supper is the last meal of the day in English, from Old French souper via a Germanic root for sop; historically the light evening meal when dinner was at midday, now varying by region, class, and country.
Susan Spungen
Susan Spungen, American food writer, founding food editor of Martha Stewart Living (1991-2003), food stylist on Julie & Julia, author of Open Kitchen, Veg Forward, and Cookie Queen.
Sweetest Day
Sweetest Day, an informal American holiday on the third Saturday of October, began as 1916 Candy Day and a 1921 Cleveland candy-makers' charity giveaway, now a regional Great Lakes Valentine's Day-like gift occasion.
Sylvia Vaughn Thompson
Sylvia Vaughn Sheekman Thompson, American cookbook author (Economy Gastronomy 1963, Feasts and Friends 1988, The Kitchen Garden Cookbook 1995), daughter of actress Gloria Stuart, whose 1977 slow-cooker book was recalled in 1978 over an explosive caramel recipe.
Table manners
Table manners: culturally specific expectations for behavior while eating, covering utensils, posture, speech, and hygiene. Acquired by socialization, codified in Europe from the 12th century (Erasmus 1530), and highly variable across cultures.
Taco Tuesday
Taco Tuesday is the American custom of Tuesday taco promotions, formerly trademarked by Taco John's (49 states, 1989) and Gregory's (New Jersey) until Taco Bell's 2023 cancellation campaign freed the phrase.
Takeru Kobayashi (小林 尊)
Takeru Kobayashi (小林 尊), born 1978 in Nagano, is a retired Japanese competitive eater, six-time Nathan's hot dog contest champion (2001–2006), innovator of the Kobayashi shake, and Netflix rival of Joey Chestnut.
Tamasin Day-Lewis
Tamasin Day-Lewis (born 1953, Greenwich, London) is a British food writer, chef, and former documentary filmmaker; daughter of poet laureate Cecil Day-Lewis, sister of actor Daniel Day-Lewis, author of 12 cookery books and Telegraph food columnist.
Tarla Dalal (તરલા દલાલ)
Tarla Dalal (તરલા દલાલ) was an Indian cookbook author, cooking teacher, and television cook whose 170-plus vegetarian cookbooks sold over 4 million copies; she received the Padma Shri in 2007.
The Chew
The Chew was an ABC daytime talk show (September 26, 2011 to June 15, 2018) hosted by Mario Batali, Michael Symon, Carla Hall, Clinton Kelly, and Daphne Oz, replacing All My Children and later succeeded by a third hour of Good Morning America.
The Chicken Connoisseur
The Chicken Connoisseur is Elijah Quashie of Tottenham, London, whose YouTube series The Pengest Munch rates chicken shops' wings, fries, and burgers out of five; viral December 2016, then a book deal and the Channel 4 show Peng Life.
The Delectable Negro
The Delectable Negro is Vincent Woodard's 2014 NYU Press study of cannibalism, hunger, and homoeroticism in US slave culture, published posthumously and winner of the 2015 Lambda Literary LGBT Studies Award.
The Final Table
The Final Table is a 10-episode Netflix cooking competition that premiered November 20, 2018, hosted by Andrew Knowlton, in which 24 chefs in 12 teams cook dishes from nine countries for a panel of nine celebrity chefs; Timothy Hollingsworth won. Distinct from the JTBC drama Final Table.
The Great American Baking Show
The Great American Baking Show is the American spinoff of The Great British Bake Off, an amateur baking competition judged by Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith, filmed in the UK tent, run on ABC 2015-2020 and Roku 2023-2026, cancelled by Roku in 2026.
The Great British Bake Off
The Great British Bake Off (GBBO) is a Love Productions amateur baking competition begun on BBC Two in 2010, moved to Channel 4 in 2017, with Signature, Technical, and Showstopper challenges, judged by Paul Hollywood and now Nigella Lawson.
The Great Canadian Baking Show
The Great Canadian Baking Show, also known internationally as The Great Canadian Bake Off, is CBC's 2017 adaptation of The Great British Bake Off: 10 amateur bakers, Signature, Technical and Show Stopper rounds, Proper Television production, judges Bruno Feldeisen and Kyla Kennaley.
The Great Food Truck Race
The Great Food Truck Race is a Food Network reality competition, debuting August 2010 and hosted by Tyler Florence, in which food truck teams sell food city to city for a $50,000 grand prize; produced by Critical Content.
The Joy of Painting
The Joy of Painting is the American PBS instructional series hosted by Bob Ross (1983–1994, 403 episodes, 31 seasons), teaching wet-on-wet landscape oil painting in half-hour episodes; distinct from later Bob Ross-branded streaming channels and books.
The Next Iron Chef
The Next Iron Chef is a Food Network cooking competition (2007) hosted by Alton Brown, in which ten professional chefs compete for an Iron Chef seat on Iron Chef America; winners include Michael Symon, Jose Garces, Marc Forgione, and Geoffrey Zakarian.
The Omnivore's Dilemma
The Omnivore's Dilemma (2006) is Michael Pollan's food-systems investigation tracing four meals, industrial, organic, pastoral, and foraged, through the American food chain, famous for showing corn's dominance of the diet; NYT Ten Best Books and James Beard winner.