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Shortening
Shortening: a word with several senses. In cooking, butter or fat that makes dough crumbly (noun by 1796); in husbandry, scrotal shortening (cryptorchid) and tail docking; in meat science, cold shortening; in linguistics, abbreviation.
Shot glass
A shot glass is a small drinking glass for a single measure of liquor, typically 1-2 oz (30-60 ml). Historically also called jigger; term attested by 1955; US standard 1.5 oz, official only in Utah.
ShowBiz Pizza Place
ShowBiz Pizza Place, an American animatronic pizza and arcade chain founded March 3, 1980 in Kansas City by Robert Brock and Aaron Fechter, home of the Rock-afire Explosion band, rival of Chuck E. Cheese until the 1985 merger rebranded all stores.
Shower beer
Shower beer: beer consumed while showering, a 2000s slang term and internet meme with a Reddit community, branded beers (PangPang/Snask, Champion), and practical style and safety guidance.
Shri Mahila Griha Udyog Lijjat Papad (શ્રી મહિલા ગૃહ ઉદ્યોગ લિજ્જત પાપડ)
Shri Mahila Griha Udyog Lijjat Papad (Lijjat Papad), the Indian women's worker cooperative founded 15 March 1959 by seven women in Girgaum, Mumbai, with Rs 80; ~45,000 sister members, Rs 1,600 crore turnover, 54% of organized papad market.
Shrimp and grits
Shrimp and grits, also called breakfast shrimp or shrimp and hominy, is a Lowcountry dish of shrimp in bacon-fat gravy over stone-ground corn grits, created in Gullah Geechee kitchens and popularized nationally by Bill Neal and Craig Claiborne in 1985.
Shrimp paste
Shrimp paste, called kapi, belacan, terasi, ngapi, mam tom, or bagoong alamang, is a salt-fermented condiment of tiny shrimp or krill from Southeast Asia and southern China, valued for umami, with 20-25% salt and Tetragenococcus-driven fermentation.
Shrub (drink)
Shrub (drinking vinegar): a fruit, sugar, and vinegar syrup diluted with water, soda, or spirits. From Arabic sharab; popular in colonial America, revived by the 2000s cocktail renaissance; distinct from switchel and oxymel.
Shumai (烧卖)
Shumai (烧卖, shāomài, Cantonese siu maai) is an open-topped Chinese steamed dumpling; the Cantonese pork-and-shrimp dim sum form differs from northern mutton shaomai sold by liang in Hohhot.
Si King
Si King (Simon James King, born 1966, Kibblesworth, County Durham), British chef and TV presenter, one half of the Hairy Bikers with Dave Myers; 33 books, 6 million copies; Myers died 2024; King now runs PROPA! pies and solo projects.
Sichuan cuisine (川菜)
Sichuan cuisine (川菜), a Chinese regional cuisine from the Sichuan Basin, one of the eight great cuisines, defined by 27 compound flavor types, mala numbing-spice, late-Qing maturation, national intangible heritage status, and 2025 provincial legislation.
Sichuan pepper
Sichuan pepper, huajiao (花椒), also called Szechuan pepper or Chinese prickly ash, is the numbing citrus-family spice from Zanthoxylum husks; sanshools cause the tingle central to Sichuan mala cuisine.
Sicilian pizza
Sicilian pizza, or sfincione (sfincione), is a thick rectangular pan pizza from Palermo topped with tomato, onion, anchovy, caciocavallo, and breadcrumbs; the American New York version uses mozzarella and simpler sauce, and it spawned Detroit-style pizza in 1946.
Side dish
Side dish: a small portion of food, such as salad or vegetables, served alongside a meal's main course; also called a side or accompaniment. Distinct from the main course; central to Korean banchan and Japanese staple-main-side meal structure.
Sidecar (cocktail)
Sidecar: classic IBA sour of cognac, triple sec (Cointreau) and lemon juice, shaken and served up, often with a sugar rim; first printed 1922 by MacElhone and Vermeire, ratio disputed (equal parts vs 2:1:1).
Sierra Mist
Sierra Mist was a lemon-lime flavored soft drink produced by PepsiCo, introduced in the United States in 1999 to compete against Sprite and 7 Up, and discontinued in January 2023.
Silog
Silog is a class of Filipino breakfast plates of sinangag (garlic fried rice) and itlog (egg) plus a named protein, such as tapsilog (beef tapa), longsilog (longganisa), tocilog, or bangsilog; coined in the 1980s around Vivian Del Rosario's tapsilog.
Silphium
Silphium (Greek σίλφιον), also called laser, was a spice-and-medicine umbellifer of ancient Cyrenaica, Libya, first recorded human-driven extinction. Candidates include Ferula drudeana; contraceptive claims are contested.
Simmering
Simmering: a moist-heat cooking method, also called gentle boiling, in which food cooks submerged in liquid bubbling softly at about 185–200°F (85–94°C), below boiling; used for stocks, stews, and tough cuts.
Simnel cake
Simnel cake: a British light fruit cake with marzipan layers and eleven marzipan balls, traditionally eaten at Easter and on Mothering Sunday, the fourth Sunday in Lent.
Simon Rimmer
Simon Rimmer (born 1963, Wallasey) is an English chef and TV presenter, self-taught, founder of Manchester vegetarian restaurant Greens (1990/1992), co-host of Channel 4's Sunday Brunch with Tim Lovejoy since 2012, ex-Something for the Weekend, Strictly 2017, Gold Radio host.
Singapore sling
Singapore sling: gin-based cocktail with cherry brandy, Benedictine, citrus, bitters and soda; credited to Ngiam Tong Boon at Raffles Hotel's Long Bar (1915), though newspaper records predate that claim; Singapore's national drink and IBA official cocktail since 1987.
Singaporean cuisine
Singaporean cuisine: multicultural food culture blending Malay, Chinese, Indian, Peranakan, and Western influences, centered on hawker centres, iconic dishes like chicken rice and chilli crab, and UNESCO-listed hawker culture (2020).
Single malt Scotch
Single malt Scotch whisky is Scotch distilled at one distillery from water and malted barley only, in copper pot stills, matured in Scotland at least three years, bottled at 40% ABV minimum.
Single malt whisky
Single malt whisky is whisky distilled in pot stills at one distillery from water and malted barley alone; legally defined for Scotch, matured three years in oak casks up to 700 litres, and now produced worldwide.
Sinigang
Sinigang is the Filipino sour soup or stew, built on pork, beef, fish, shrimp, or chicken with vegetables and a fruit souring agent, usually tamarind; also called sour broth, it is culturally Tagalog and ranked TasteAtlas' best soup in 2021.
SirDavis
SirDavis is an American whisky brand founded by Beyoncé Knowles-Carter in partnership with Moët Hennessy and launched in 2024, named for her great-grandfather Davis Hogue, a Prohibition-era moonshiner; she became sole owner in 2026.
Sisig
Sisig (sizzling sisig): Filipino Kapampangan dish of chopped pork face, ears, and liver with onions, chili, and calamansi, served on a hot plate; reinvented in 1970s Angeles City by Aling Lucing Cunanan, now a pulutan and heritage dish.
Sizzler
Sizzler: American casual family steakhouse chain founded January 27, 1958 in Culver City, California by Del and Helen Johnson; known for inexpensive steaks, seafood, and the all-you-can-eat salad bar; peaked at 646 units in 1989, filed bankruptcy in 2020, now 74 U.S. units with Thailand and Japan franchises.
Skimmed milk
Skimmed milk (skim milk, nonfat milk): cow's milk with milkfat reduced below 0.5% by centrifugal cream separation, retaining protein and calcium with fewer calories (84 vs 152 per serving) and reduced fat-soluble vitamins; often vitamin A fortified.