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Sunkist (soft drink)
Sunkist (soft drink): American orange soda created in 1978 by General Cinema under license from Sunkist Growers, now made by Keurig Dr Pepper, the top-selling U.S. orange soda, caffeinated, and not a PepsiCo product.
Sunny Anderson
Sunny Anderson (born 1975), also known as Chef Sunny Anderson, is an American Food Network host, self-taught chef, and New York Times bestselling cookbook author, a former Air Force senior airman and radio DJ who co-hosted The Kitchen from 2014 to 2025.
SunnyD
SunnyD, originally Sunny Delight, is an American orange citrus punch drink created in Florida in 1963, fortified with 100% Vitamin C per 8 oz serving and containing 5% juice. Once a UK phenomenon under Procter & Gamble, sales collapsed after health controversy; it is now owned by Harvest Hill.
Sunshine Biscuits
Sunshine Biscuits, founded 1902 in Kansas City as Loose-Wiles Biscuit Company and renamed Sunshine Biscuit, Inc. in 1946, was the American baker behind Hydrox cookies, Cheez-It, and Krispy crackers and Nabisco's chief rival; acquired by Keebler in 1996, Kellogg in 2001, and now under Kellanova/Mars.
Suntory (サントリーホールディングス株式会社)
Suntory, also known as Suntory Holdings, is a Japanese beverage and spirits company founded in Osaka in 1899 by Shinjiro Torii. Its brands include Yamazaki whisky, Jim Beam, and BOSS coffee.
Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken!
Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken! is Morgan Spurlock's 2019 documentary sequel in which he opens his own Holy Chicken! fast-food restaurant to expose poultry-industry marketing and farmer debt; premiered TIFF 2017, released by Samuel Goldwyn Films.
Supermarket
Supermarket: a large self-service food retail store combining full grocery lines, meat, produce, and non-food goods under one roof. Key markers: Piggly Wiggly's 1916 self-service origin, King Kullen 1930, low-margin high-volume economics, and dominance of food retail since the mid-1950s.
Supertaster
Supertaster: coined by Linda Bartoshuk in 1991 for people who taste PROP/PTC as intensely bitter; about 25% of Americans, more fungiform papillae, TAS2R38-related but not explained by it alone.
SuperValu (United States)
Supervalu Inc. (NYSE: SVU), American grocery wholesaler and retailer of Eden Prairie, Minnesota, successor to 1870s firms, once largest US grocery distributor; acquired by United Natural Foods in 2018 for $2.9 billion. Distinct from the Irish SuperValu franchise of Musgrave Group.
Suphamongkhon Supapipat
Suphamongkhon Supapipat (ศุภมงคล ศุภพิพัฒน์), called Chef Art, is a Thai chef leading Bangkok's reservation-only Chef's Table by Chef Art and named Thailand's ninth Iron Chef in 2026.
Supper
Supper is the last meal of the day in English, from Old French souper via a Germanic root for sop; historically the light evening meal when dinner was at midday, now varying by region, class, and country.
Supper club
Supper club: a hosted, ticketed dining format between a restaurant and a dinner party. Covers the nightclub-era term, Lawrence Frank's 1920s Beverly Hills origin, the Wisconsin supper club tradition with brandy old fashioneds and relish trays, and the modern underground pop-up revival.
Surf and turf
Surf and turf (surf 'n' turf; Australian "reef and beef") is a steakhouse dish pairing steak, usually filet mignon, with seafood, usually lobster. Named in 1960s America; first published recipe in a 1966 Lowell Sun ad.
Surge (drink)
Surge is Coca-Cola's bright green citrus soda, launched in Norway as Urge in 1996 and in the US in 1997 to rival Mountain Dew, discontinued in 2003, and revived in 2014 via the fan-led SURGE Movement.
Susan Spungen
Susan Spungen, American food writer, founding food editor of Martha Stewart Living (1991-2003), food stylist on Julie & Julia, author of Open Kitchen, Veg Forward, and Cookie Queen.
Sushi (寿司)
Sushi (寿司, すし) is the Japanese dish of vinegared rice (shari) with seafood, egg, or vegetable toppings (neta), ranging from fermented narezushi to Edo-period nigiri by Hanaya Yohei, maki, oshizushi, and the California roll.
Sushi bake
Sushi bake, or baked sushi, is a deconstructed sushi casserole of seasoned rice, creamy seafood, and furikake, scooped onto nori; a Hawaii pan sushi descendant that went viral in Manila during the 2020 lockdowns.
Susur Lee
Susur Lee is a Hong Kong-born, Toronto-based chef of Chinese-French fusion cuisine, founder of Lotus (1987), Susur (2000), and flagship Lee (2004), a Top Chef Masters finalist and Iron Chef Canada participant.
Swanson
Swanson is the Omaha, Nebraska food brand (founded 1899 as Jerpe Commission Company) that introduced the frozen TV Dinner in the 1950s; its name is now split between Campbell's (broths) and Conagra (frozen meals).
Swedish Chef
Swedish Chef, a Muppet character from The Muppet Show, debuted in 1975; performed by Jim Henson (voice) and Frank Oz (hands), now Bill Barretta; speaks mock Swedish gibberish, "bork bork bork."
Swedish cuisine
Swedish cuisine: the food tradition of Sweden, built on husmanskost home cooking, preservation methods like pickling and smoking, and imports reworked as Swedish (meatballs, smörgåsbord, kanelbulle), alongside New Nordic Cuisine and modern sustainability trends.
Swedish Fish
Swedish Fish, known in Sweden as Malaco pastellfiskar, are fish-shaped gelatin-free wine gum candies created by Malaco in Sweden in the late 1950s for the US market. The North American version is now made by Mondelēz in Hamilton, Ontario, and Turkey; the red flavor remains officially unconfirmed.
Sweet and sour
Sweet and sour is a sauce and cooking style combining sugar with vinegar or fruit, common in East and Southeast Asian cuisine since the Tang dynasty.
Sweet tea
Sweet tea: black iced tea sweetened with sugar while brewing, a Southern US staple. Oldest printed recipe 1879; 1904 World's Fair invention story is legend; about 7 teaspoons sugar per 12 oz.
Sweetener
Sweetener: food ingredients adding sweetness with or without calories, from sucrose, HFCS (42% or 55% fructose), and sugar alcohols to high-intensity sweeteners such as aspartame, sucralose, saccharin, stevia, and monk fruit, regulated by FDA, EFSA, and JECFA.
Sweetest Day
Sweetest Day, an informal American holiday on the third Saturday of October, began as 1916 Candy Day and a 1921 Cleveland candy-makers' charity giveaway, now a regional Great Lakes Valentine's Day-like gift occasion.
Sweetness of wine
Sweetness of wine: residual sugar (glucose plus fructose) left after fermentation, with OIV labelling thresholds from dry (4 g/l) to sweet (45 g/l) and how acidity, tannin and alcohol alter perceived sweetness.
Swiss cuisine
Swiss cuisine is the regional cooking of Switzerland, shaped by German, French and northern Italian influences. Known for fondue, raclette, rösti, Birchermüesli, over 700 cheeses and the world's highest chocolate consumption, it has no official national dish.
Swiss roll
Swiss roll (jelly roll, roll cake, roulade): a thin whisked sponge baked flat, filled with jam or cream, and rolled into a cylinder; Central European origin, named in Britain, cracked sponges traced to overbaking, cooling flat, or thickness.
Sylvia Vaughn Thompson
Sylvia Vaughn Sheekman Thompson, American cookbook author (Economy Gastronomy 1963, Feasts and Friends 1988, The Kitchen Garden Cookbook 1995), daughter of actress Gloria Stuart, whose 1977 slow-cooker book was recalled in 1978 over an explosive caramel recipe.