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Shady Maple Smorgasbord
Shady Maple Smorgasbord is an all-you-can-eat buffet restaurant in East Earl, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, serving Pennsylvania Dutch cooking on a 200-foot buffet line for up to 7,000 diners a day.
Shake Shack
Shake Shack (NYSE: SHAK) is an American fast-casual burger chain founded by Danny Meyer's Union Square Hospitality Group, starting as a 2001 Madison Square Park hot dog cart, permanent kiosk in 2004, IPO in 2015, 659 Shacks system-wide at the end of 2025.
Shakey's Pizza
Shakey's Pizza, American pizza chain founded 1954 in Sacramento by Sherwood "Shakey" Johnson and Ed Plummer; known for thin crust pizza, Mojo potatoes, and Bunch of Lunch buffet; now centered on its Philippine operator SPAVI with 2,970 stores.
Shakshouka (شكشوكة)
Shakshouka (شكشوكة), also shakshuka or chakchouka, is a North African one-pan dish of eggs poached in spiced tomato-pepper sauce; carried to Israel by Maghrebi Jewish migrants in the 1950s, now a global brunch staple.
Shandong cuisine
Shandong cuisine (鲁菜, Lu cuisine), China's oldest of the Eight Great Cuisines and the only self-originated one, is the salty-umami, seafood-and-stock school of northern Chinese cooking, with Jinan, Jiaodong, Kongfu, and Boshan schools and signature techniques bao, pa, and ta.
Shandy
A shandy, also called shandygaff, is a low-alcohol drink made by mixing beer with lemonade or another soft drink, known as a Radler in Germany.
Shanghai cuisine (上海菜)
Shanghai cuisine (上海菜), or Benbang cuisine (本帮菜), is Shanghai's local cooking style known for nong you chi jiang (rich oil, red soy sauce, sweet-salty flavor), red-braising and wine-lees techniques, dishes like eight-treasure duck, and national intangible cultural heritage status since 2014.
Shannon Bennett
Shannon Bennett (born 1973) is an Australian chef and restaurateur, founder of Vue de Monde in Melbourne and The Belongil in Byron Bay; trained under Marco Pierre White and John Burton Race in the UK.
Sharpening stone
Sharpening stone, also called whetstone: a bonded abrasive block used to hone knives, scissors, chisels, and razors. Types include water, oil, ceramic, and diamond stones, graded by grit from coarse reshaping to fine polishing.
Shashlik (шашлык)
Shashlik (шашлык, from Crimean Tatar shyshlyk, "something on a spit") is skewered meat grilled over coals, a Caucasus and Central Asian dish spread by Soviet picnic culture; also called shish kebab, khorovats, mtsvadi.
Shawarma
Shawarma (Arabic shawirma, from Turkish cevirme, turning) is a Levantine dish of marinated meat stacked on a vertical rotating spit, shaved as it cooks, and served in flatbread; distinct from döner and gyros in spicing and sauces.
Shchi (щи)
Shchi (щи) is the classic Russian cabbage soup, fresh or sauerkraut, cooked since the 10th century; rich or empty, stove-simmered, with 24+ varieties, served with smetana and black bread.
Shea olein
Shea olein (shea oleine), the oleic-rich liquid fraction of fractionated shea butter from Vitellaria paradoxa nuts; about 92% triglycerides, 54% oleic acid; GRAS for food use via FDA GRN 850 (BUNGE, 2020).
Sheetz
Sheetz, Inc. is a family-owned American chain of convenience stores and fuel stations founded by Bob Sheetz in Altoona, Pennsylvania in 1952, known for its made-to-order food.
Shepherd's pie
Shepherd's pie, also known as cottage pie, is a baked dish of cooked minced meat, traditionally lamb or mutton, topped with mashed potato instead of pastry.
Sherbet (powder)
Sherbet powder is a British effervescent candy powder of sugar, citric or tartaric acid, and sodium bicarbonate that fizzes with carbon dioxide when wet; distinct from the American frozen dessert also called sherbet.
Sherry
Sherry is the fortified wine of the Jerez-Xérès-Sherry DO in Andalusia, made mainly from Palomino, aged under flor or oxidatively in the criaderas and solera fractional-blending system, from dry Fino to sweet Pedro Ximénez.
Shin Ramyun
Shin Ramyun (신라면) is Nongshim's spicy instant noodle, launched in Korea in October 1986. Distinguished by its hot beef-broth-style soup, it reached No. 1 domestic market share in 1991, sells in over 100 countries, and has variants including Shin Ramyun Black, Gold, and Rose.
Shirataki noodles
Shirataki (しらたき, 白滝), also called ito-konnyaku in Kansai, are thin Japanese noodles of konjac glucomannan and water: about 97% water, roughly 10 calories per 112 g serving, all carbohydrate as fiber, used in sukiyaki and oden and marketed abroad as a low-calorie, gluten-free pasta substitute.
Shiraz wine
Shiraz wine, the Australian name for Syrah, is a medium to full-bodied red from the same grape variety; styles range from lean Northern Rhône Syrah to ripe Barossa Shiraz, with rotundone giving pepper aroma and Penfolds Grange and Henschke Hill of Grace as icons.
Shiroi Koibito (白い恋人)
Shiroi Koibito (白い恋人, "white lover") is a white chocolate langue de chat sandwich cookie made by Ishiya Seika in Sapporo since December 1976; Hokkaido's iconic souvenir, with a Black milk-chocolate version, Shiroi Koibito Park factory theme park, and a 2007 expiration-date scandal.
Shōchū (焼酎)
Shōchū (焼酎) is a Japanese distilled alcoholic beverage made from ingredients like sweet potato, barley, and rice, traditionally distilled only once and typically 20 to 30% ABV.
Shoney's
Shoney's, also Shoney's Big Boy, is a Nashville-headquartered American family-dining restaurant chain founded in 1947 in Charleston, West Virginia, famous for its Fresh Food Bar breakfast buffet and hot fudge cake; it grew past 1,300 locations before bankruptcy and now operates fewer than 60 restaurants in about 16 states.
Shoofly pie
Shoofly pie, a Pennsylvania Dutch molasses pie with crumb topping, believed developed from an 1876 centennial cake; wet-bottom and dry-bottom styles; name origin undocumented.
Shooter (drink)
A shooter, also called a cocktail shooter, is a small mixed alcoholic drink of several ingredients, downed in one or two gulps, that emerged in the 1970s.
Shopska salad (Шопска салата)
Shopska salad (Шопска салата), Bulgarian chopped salad of tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, and onion under grated sirene cheese; invented by Balkantourist chefs in the 1950s, cheese added in the 1970s; named for the Shopluk region, not an old folk recipe.
Short ribs
Short ribs: beef from the rib end of the rib and plate plus chuck (IMPS 123A/123B/130), sold English-cut or flanken; braised, smoked, or grilled as Korean galbi, asado de tira, and Texas plate ribs.
Shortbread
Shortbread is a traditional Scottish biscuit of butter, sugar, and wheat or oat flour with a crumbly "short" texture; no eggs or leavening, classic 1:2:3 sugar-butter-flour ratio, about 500 kcal per 100 g.
Shortcake
Shortcake: a sweet, fat-shortened crumbly biscuit or cake, split and filled with fruit and cream; American strawberry shortcake dates to 1847, with British shortbread and Japanese sponge-cake variants.
Shortcrust pastry
Shortcrust pastry (short pastry): a basic crumbly pastry of half fat to flour by weight with a little cold water, rubbed in to limit gluten. Used for pies, tarts, quiches, and Cornish pasties; blind baked for wet fillings.