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Salade niçoise
Salade niçoise (salada nissarda), a composed salad from Nice with tomatoes, black olives, anchovies or tuna, eggs, and olive oil. Purists reject boiled potatoes and green beans; the Cuisine Nissarde label, created in 1998, certifies authentic versions.
Salami
Salami: cured, fermented sausage (Italian salame, plural salami) of minced pork, salted, fermented to low pH, dried, and eaten uncooked; distinguished from cooked sausages, with Genoa, pepperoni, and Felino variants and E. coli O157:H7 safety rules.
Salep
Salep is a flour of dried, ground wild orchid tubers used for a hot cinnamon-topped winter drink and maraş dondurma ice cream; distinguished from sahlab substitutes by its glucomannan content, at least 35 source species, and Turkey's export ban.
Salisbury steak
Salisbury steak is an American ground-beef patty with binders and seasonings, pan-fried and served in mushroom-onion gravy, named for physician James Henry Salisbury, whose Civil War-era 'muscle pulp of beef' health diet it descends from.
Salo (сало) (food)
Salo (сало), also called slanina or slonina, is salt-cured pork back fat eaten across Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, Poland, and the Baltics; cured 3–14 days with salt, garlic, and pepper, it provides 770–870 kcal per 100 g and keeps without refrigeration.
Salsa macha
Salsa macha, a Mexican oil-based chili condiment from Veracruz (Orizaba), made of fried dried chilies, garlic, peanuts, sesame, and often vinegar; nuttier and tangier than Chinese chili crisp, with which it is often compared.
Salt Bae
Salt Bae is the nickname of Nusret Gökçe (born 1983), Turkish butcher-chef and founder of the Nusr-Et steakhouse chain, famous for a 2017 viral salt-sprinkling video, luxury pricing, and recent restaurant closures.
Salt bread
Salt bread (shio pan/sogeum-ppang) is a yeast roll developed in Japan in 2003 and first sold in 2004, known for its buttery hollow center and popular in South Korea.
Saltimbocca
Saltimbocca, or saltimbocca alla romana, is a Roman dish of thin veal cutlets topped with sage and prosciutto, floured and cooked in butter with white wine; first recorded by Artusi in 1871, its origin is disputed with Brescia.
Saltine cracker
Saltine cracker (also soda cracker, soda biscuit): thin, square, perforated US cracker of white flour, baking soda and/or yeast, shortening, coarse salt topping; first made by F.L. Sommer in 1876, part of Nabisco from 1898.
Saltine cracker challenge
Saltine cracker challenge (saltine challenge): a food dare to eat six saltine soda crackers in 60 seconds without drinking, crumbs included. Hard because crackers absorb saliva; Guinness record is 6.
Salty liquorice
Salty liquorice, also known as salmiakki, is a candy popular in the Nordic countries and the Netherlands, flavored with ammonium chloride for a sharp, salty, slightly sour taste over a sweet licorice base.
Sam's Club
Sam's Club is Walmart's membership-only warehouse club chain, founded by Sam Walton April 7, 1983 in Midwest City, Oklahoma, with about 600 U.S. and Puerto Rico clubs, $93.0 billion fiscal 2026 net sales, $50 Club and $110 Plus tiers, and Member's Mark private label.
Sambal
Sambal (sambel) is a Southeast Asian chili paste or relish family from the Indonesian-Malay world, pounded with aromatics like shallot, garlic, and shrimp paste, with over 110 named Indonesian varieties and contested origins.
Sambar (சாம்பார்) (dish)
Sambar (சாம்பார்), a South Indian lentil-vegetable stew of toor dal, tamarind, sambar powder and tempering, served with rice, idli, dosa, and vada; its Thanjavur Maratha origin legend is disputed.
Sambo's
Sambo's was an American pancake-house chain founded in Santa Barbara in 1957 by Sam Battistone Sr. and Newell Bohnett, peaking at 1,117 restaurants in 47 states before 1981 bankruptcy; its last location became Chad's in 2020.
Samgyeopsal (삼겹살)
Samgyeopsal (삼겹살), "three-layer meat," is unmarinated pork belly grilled at the table, the default Korean barbecue meal eaten as ssam wraps. Key figures: ₩21,321 per 200 g Seoul restaurant average (Aug 2026), 33.2% of chilled pork consumption in 2022, Samgyeopsal Day March 3.
Samin Nosrat
Samin Nosrat (born 1979) is an Iranian-American chef and food writer, author of Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat (2017) and host of the Netflix series adapted from it; also wrote Good Things (2025).
Samosa
Samosa (sanbusaj, sambusa, samsa): a triangular fried or baked pastry of stiff unleavened dough with spiced filling, originating in 10th-century Middle Eastern meat pastries, adopted in India, now a global snack with a USD 7.1 billion market.
Samovar (самовар)
The samovar (самовар) is a heated metal urn used in Russia and neighboring countries to boil water and keep it hot for tea, first recorded in 1746.
Sampoorna Grameen Rozgar Yojana (सम्पूर्ण ग्रामीण रोजगार योजना)
Sampoorna Grameen Rozgar Yojana (SGRY), a 2001 Indian rural wage-employment scheme merging EAS and JGSY, with Rs 10,000 crore annual outlay, 5 kg food grain wages, 20:30:50 panchayat allocation, and merger into NREGA by 2008.
Samuel Adams (beer)
Samuel Adams (Sam Adams) is a craft beer brand of The Boston Beer Company, founded by Jim Koch in 1984. Flagship Boston Lager debuted in Boston on April 15, 1985; NYSE ticker SAM since 1995.
San Miguel Beer
San Miguel Beer is a lager first produced in 1890 by La Fabrica de Cerveza de San Miguel in Manila, whose flagship is San Miguel Pale Pilsen.
San Miguel Corporation
San Miguel Corporation is a Philippine diversified conglomerate founded in 1890 as Southeast Asia's first brewery, headquartered in Mandaluyong City and now spanning food and beverage, fuel, energy, and infrastructure.
Sancerre (wine)
Sancerre is a Loire Valley AOC in France's Cher department: whites from Sauvignon Blanc (AOC 1936, ~80% of production), reds and rosés from Pinot Noir (1959), on limestone, flint and clay soils across 14 communes.
Sancocho
Sancocho: thick Latin American and Hispanic Caribbean meat-and-tuber stew, from Spanish sancochar (half-cook). National dish of Panama (hen, ñame, culantro); Dominican seven-meat celebration version; Colombian regional variants.
Sandra Lee (chef)
Sandra Lee (chef), born Sandra Lee Waldroop in Santa Monica, California, is an American TV food personality and author who created the Semi-Homemade style (70% store-bought, 30% fresh), hosted Food Network shows, wrote 27 books, and became a breast cancer screening advocate after her 2015 diagnosis. Not the dermatologist Dr. Pimple Popper.
Sandwich
A sandwich, informally a sarnie, is a food made by placing a filling between two slices of bread, named after John Montagu, the 4th Earl of Sandwich, in 1762.
Sangiovese
Sangiovese, Italy's most planted red wine grape, a native Tuscan and Romagna variety with over 100 clones including Brunello, Prugnolo, and Morellino; base of Chianti, Brunello di Montalcino, and Vino Nobile, known for high acidity and tannin.
Sangria
Sangria (sangría) is a Spanish and Portuguese wine punch of red wine, fruit, citrus, sugar, and often brandy. EU law reserves the name for Spanish and Portuguese production; related drinks include clarea and zurra.