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Snickers
Snickers (formerly Marathon in the UK) is a Mars, Incorporated chocolate bar of nougat, caramel, and peanuts, launched in Chicago in 1930, named after the Mars family horse, with about $3.5 billion in 2012 sales.
Soba (蕎麦)
Soba (蕎麦) is a Japanese buckwheat-flour noodle, typically bound with wheat flour (nihachi soba) or funori seaweed (hegi soba). Defined by the earliest 1574 sobakiri record at Joshō-ji in Nagano, Edo-era popularity, Kanto versus Kansai broth, and mandatory allergen labeling.
SoBe
SoBe (South Beach Beverage) is an American herbal tea and 'healthy refreshment' drink brand founded in 1995 by John Bello and Tom Schwalm, named for South Beach, Florida, with its two-lizard logo; PepsiCo bought it in 2000 for about $370 million.
Sobeys
Sobeys (Sobeys Inc.) is one of Canada's two national grocery retailers, founded in 1907 in Stellarton, Nova Scotia, wholly owned by Empire Company Limited, with about 1,600 stores, a 19% grocery market share, and a 2026 consent agreement ending property controls.
Soda bread
Soda bread: quick bread leavened with baking soda and an acid, usually buttermilk, no yeast. An Irish staple since the 1840s; traditional four-ingredient loaf, Americanized sweet raisin version.
SodaStream (סודהסטרים)
SodaStream (סודהסטרים), Israeli home carbonation company founded 1903 in London, acquired by PepsiCo in 2018 for $3.3 billion; makes sparkling water makers using CO2 cylinders and reusable bottles.
Sodexo
Sodexo (formerly Sodexho) is a Paris-headquartered food services and facilities management group founded by Pierre Bellon in Marseille in 1966, with 430,000 employees in 43 countries, €23.7 billion Fiscal 2023 revenues, and the 2024 Pluxee benefits spin-off.
Sodium iron EDTA
Sodium iron EDTA (NaFeEDTA, ferric sodium edetate, sodium feredetate), CAS 15708-41-5, is a chelated iron fortificant approved by JECFA for supervised food fortification, used in high-phytate flours, sugar, soy sauce, and fish sauce.
Sodium nitrite packaging film
Sodium nitrite packaging film, or nitrite-embedded film (GRN 228), is active packaging with 113 mg/m² sodium nitrite on one side that keeps vacuum-packaged raw beef and pork bright red via nitric oxide myoglobin, with FSIS 7/30-day dating and labeling conditions.
Sodium potassium hexametaphosphate
Sodium potassium hexametaphosphate (SKMP, CAS 67183-30-6) is a glassy mixed sodium-potassium polyphosphate, GRAS via FDA GRN 316 (2010) and permitted in Canada since 2015, used to replace sodium hexametaphosphate in reduced-sodium foods.
Sofrito
Sofrito is an aromatic flavor base of vegetables and herbs in fat, central to Spanish, Caribbean, and Latin American cooking; Puerto Rican recaíto is its raw green, culantro-based, tomato-free variant.
Soft drink
Soft drink: nonalcoholic, usually sweetened, often carbonated beverage (soda, pop). Includes sugary and diet sodas like Coca-Cola (1886) and Dr Pepper (1885); linked to obesity, diabetes, and taxed via levies like the UK SDIL.
Soft serve
Soft serve: semi-soft frozen dairy dessert dispensed from a continuous freezer and eaten immediately; lower milkfat (about 3-10%) than ice cream, high air overrun, served around -6 C; also called soft cream in Japan.
Sohla El-Waylly
Sohla El-Waylly is an American chef, cookbook author, and TV personality; CIA-trained, ex-Bon Appétit editor, creator of Stump Sohla and Ancient Recipes with Sohla, judge on The Big Brunch, and James Beard-winning author of Start Here.
Soho House (club)
Soho House (club), also Soho House & Co, is a private members' club chain for creatives founded by Nick Jones in London in 1995, with about 48 Houses, tiered memberships, Cecconi's restaurants, and a 2025 £2bn take-private by MCR Hotels.
Soju (소주)
Soju (소주) is a clear Korean spirit made by distilling fermented grain or diluting neutral ethanol, first documented around 1375 and described as Korea's national drink.
Solar cooker
Solar cooker: device cooking food with sunlight alone, first built by Horace de Saussure in 1767. Types include box, panel, parabolic, and heat-storage cookers; standardized cooking power ranges from about 25 W (panel) to 198 W (parabolic).
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.
Somerfield
Somerfield, formerly Gateway, was a British supermarket and convenience chain (with Kwik Save) bought by Co-operative Group in 2009 for £1.565bn; brand phased out, company closed 2010.
Sommelier
Sommelier: restaurant wine professional who serves wine, advises on pairings, and manages wine lists and cellars. Certified via CMS (four levels, 305 Master Sommeliers), WSET, or ASI (678 Diploma holders).
Son Jong-won
Son Jong-won (손종원) is a South Korean chef, executive chef of Seoul's two one-Michelin-star restaurants L'Amant Secret (French) and Eatanic Garden (Korean), a Culinary Class Wars 2 contestant, and a former civil engineering student trained at the CIA, Benu, and Noma.
Sonic Drive-In
Sonic Drive-In is an American fast-food chain founded by Troy Smith in Shawnee, Oklahoma in 1953, operating the largest chain of drive-in restaurants in the United States.
Sonoma County, California
Sonoma County, California: Northern California wine county of 1,800 square miles with 19 AVAs, nearly 60,000 vineyard acres, 425+ wineries, known for Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, and Dry Creek Zinfandel.
Sopaipilla
Sopaipilla, also sopapilla, sopaipa, torta frita, or cachanga: a deep-fried flour pastry of Spanish-heritage America. Arrived with colonizers around 1700; central Chile adds pumpkin, sopaipillas pasadas soak fried rounds in chancaca syrup; New Mexico serves honey-drizzled or stuffed sopapillas.
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.
Sorbet
Sorbet (Italian sorbetto, from Arabic sharbat) is a dairy-free frozen dessert of fruit juice or purée, water, and sugar, with 0% milk fat, distinct from sherbet, which contains dairy; typically 25–35% sugar, served as dessert or palate cleanser.
Soto (food)
Soto (also sroto, tauto, coto, saoto) is an Indonesian spiced soup of Chinese origin, known since the 19th century, with about 75 regional varieties; named one of Indonesia's five national dishes in 2018.
Soufflé
Soufflé, a French baked dish of a flavored base lightened with stiffly beaten egg whites that rises in the oven; savory or sweet; earliest recipes 1730s, perfected by Carême; deflates on serving.
Soul food
Soul food is the traditional African American cuisine originating with enslaved people of African ancestry in the American South; also called Southern food. Known for greens, black-eyed peas, fried chicken, cornbread, and 1960s naming tied to Black pride.
Soup
Soup: a primarily liquid food of meat, vegetables, or grains in stock, juice, or water, served warm or cold. Covers clear and thick types (broth, bisque, chowder, cream, purée), etymology, and the soup origin of the word restaurant.