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Ruby chocolate
Ruby chocolate is a pink, sour, berry-flavored fourth type of chocolate introduced by Barry Callebaut in Shanghai on September 5, 2017, made from underfermented or unfermented cocoa beans, first sold as Nestlé KitKat Ruby in Japan in 2018.
Ruby Tandoh
Ruby Tandoh (born 1992, Southend) is a British food writer and 2013 Great British Bake Off finalist; author of Crumb, Flavour, Eat Up!, Cook As You Are, and All Consuming (2025), formerly a Guardian columnist.
Ruby Tuesday (restaurant)
Ruby Tuesday is an American casual dining restaurant chain founded in 1972 in Knoxville, Tennessee, known for its burgers and all-you-can-eat Garden Bar salad station.
Rugbrød
Rugbrød (Danish rye bread) is Denmark's dense sourdough rye loaf, the daily bread for over 1000 years and the base of smørrebrød open sandwiches; baked about 75 minutes to a 98 °C core, traditionally unsweetened.
Rugelach
Rugelach (Yiddish for "little twists") is an Ashkenazi Jewish filled pastry descended from Central European kipfel. American versions use cream cheese dough (from the 1930s-1950s); Israeli versions stay yeasted.
Rum
Rum is a distilled alcoholic spirit made by fermenting and distilling molasses or sugarcane juice, first produced by Caribbean sugar planters in the early 1600s.
Rum and Coke
Rum and Coke, also called Cuba Libre, is a highball of rum, cola, and often fresh lime; IBA recipe 50 ml rum, 120 ml cola, 10 ml lime. Claimed 1900 Havana origin via a Bacardi-backed affidavit; first printed as Cuba Libre in 1928; popularized in WWII America.
Rum baba
Rum baba (baba au rhum, babà) is a yeast cake soaked in rum syrup, attributed to Stanisław Leszczyński's pastry chef Nicolas Stohrer, adopted in Paris and perfected in Naples; savarin is its ring-shaped variant.
Rum-running
Rum-running, also called liquor smuggling or bootlegging by sea, was the maritime smuggling of whiskey and rum into the United States during Prohibition (1920–1933), centered on offshore anchorages called Rum Row and suppressed by an expanded Coast Guard.
Rusk
Rusk is twice-baked bread, dried until hard and crisp; known as beschuit, zwieback, biscotti, or beskuit, historically ship's provisions, now a tea-time snack and sausage ingredient.
Russian cuisine
Russian cuisine (русская кухня): the culinary tradition of the Russian people, defined by grain dishes, soups such as shchi and borscht, fermented foods, and Russian-stove cooking, now a growing restaurant sector with 62% local-ingredient menus in 2024.
Russian dressing
Russian dressing is an American mayonnaise-ketchup condiment with horseradish, Worcestershire, and paprika; spicier and less sweet than Thousand Island, credited to Nashua, New Hampshire grocer James E. Colburn, and classic on the Reuben sandwich.
Russian Tea Room
The Russian Tea Room is a historic Russian-themed restaurant at 150 West 57th Street, Manhattan, founded by Russian Imperial Ballet members in 1926, famed for its bear aquarium, Fabergé egg tree, celebrity clientele, and 1999 Warner LeRoy rebuild.
Rustie Lee
Rustie Lee, British-Jamaican TV chef, presenter, singer and actress born in Portland, Jamaica, known for TV-am cookery from 1983, hosting Game for a Laugh, her Rustie's restaurant in Handsworth, UKIP candidacy, and cookbooks.
Ruth Graves Wakefield
Ruth Graves Wakefield (1903-1977), American dietitian and chef, created the Toll House Chocolate Crunch Cookie at her Whitman, Massachusetts inn; her 1938 recipe and 1939 Nestlé deal, traded for one dollar and lifetime chocolate, popularized the chocolate chip cookie.
Ruth's Chris Steak House
Ruth's Chris Steak House, founded by Ruth Fertel in New Orleans in 1965, is an upscale steakhouse chain known for 1,800-degree-broiled USDA Prime steaks served sizzling in butter on 500-degree plates, franchised from 1976 and acquired by Darden Restaurants in 2023 for $715 million.
Rye bread
Rye bread is bread made from rye flour (Secale cereale), often blended with wheat in North America (about 20% rye) but often 100% rye in Europe; dense, sourdough-fermented, high in fiber (~10 g/100 g), with a lower insulin response than wheat bread.
Rye whiskey
Rye whiskey is an American whiskey distilled from a mash of at least 51 percent rye grain, once the dominant American whiskey and spicier than bourbon.
S. Truett Cathy
S. Truett Cathy (1921-2014), American restaurateur, founder of Chick-fil-A; opened the Dwarf Grill in Hapeville, Georgia in 1946, invented the pressure-cooked chicken sandwich in 1961, opened the first Chick-fil-A at Greenbriar Mall, Atlanta in 1967, and kept restaurants closed on Sundays.
S.Pellegrino
S.Pellegrino (San Pellegrino) is an Italian sparkling natural mineral water from San Pellegrino Terme, Val Brembana, founded 1899, Nestlé-owned since 1998, with TDS 860 mg/L, sold in over 150 countries, and slated for the Peranel Nestlé-Platinum Equity joint venture.
S'more
S'more: North American campfire dessert of toasted marshmallow, chocolate, and graham crackers; contraction of "some more"; first printed 1925-1927 in Girl Scout publications, not by the mythical Loretta Scott Crew.
Sachertorte
Sachertorte: Viennese chocolate torte created in 1832 by Franz Sacher for Prince Metternich; apricot jam and chocolate glaze; subject of the 1950s-60s Sacher-Demel cake war over the 'Original Sacher-Torte' name.
Safeway (UK)
Safeway was a British supermarket chain that operated independently from 1987 until Morrisons acquired it in 2004; at its height it ran more than 470 stores.
Saffron
Saffron, from Crocus sativus stigmas, is the world's most expensive spice; key compounds crocin, picrocrocin, safranal; graded by ISO 3632; Iran produces about 90%; frequently adulterated.
Saimin
Saimin is Hawaii's own noodle soup, created in the plantation era from Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, and other immigrant foodways. Thin egg noodles in light dashi broth with char siu, kamaboko, and Spam distinguish it from ramen.
Sainsbury's
Sainsbury's (J Sainsbury plc) is the UK's second largest grocer, founded in 1869 by John James and Mary Ann Sainsbury in Drury Lane, London. It runs 600+ supermarkets, 885 convenience stores, and brands including Argos, Habitat, Tu, Nectar, and Sainsbury's Bank, with a 15.2% grocery market share behind Tesco.
Saison
Saison (French for "season") is a dry, highly attenuated Belgian farmhouse ale from Wallonia, historically brewed in winter for summer farm workers; defined by peppery, estery saison yeast, 85–95% attenuation, high carbonation, and benchmark Saison Dupont.
Sake Museum Ponshu-kan
Ponshu-kan (ぽんしゅ館) is a Niigata sake museum and shop chain opened in 1995 at Echigo-Yuzawa Station, with branches at Nagaoka and Niigata stations, offering coin-operated tasting of all 89 prefectural breweries' brands (111 labels) and sake baths, bomb onigiri, and local foods.
Salad
Salad: cold dish of mixed vegetables, fruit, meat, seafood, eggs, or grains served with a dressing, from Latin herba salata (salted herb); a ready-to-eat food whose safety depends on refrigeration and low-pH dressings (pH ≤4.1).
Salad Bowls
Salad bowls: build-your-own mixed salad and grain bowls sold by fast-casual chains (nicknamed 'slop bowls'), also the name of a 1948–1955 Phoenix college football bowl game, a Jeffreys Bay surf break, and a St. Louis cafeteria.