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Scotch whisky
Scotch whisky, legally defined by the Scotch Whisky Regulations 2009, is whisky distilled and matured in Scotland for at least three years in oak casks. Key facts: five legal categories, 1494 first record, £5.3bn 2025 exports, US tariff history.
Scotch Whisky Association
The Scotch Whisky Association is the trade association representing the Scotch Whisky industry. Founded in 1912 and based in Edinburgh, it advocates on tax, trade, and regulation, and protects Scotch Whisky's legal definition.
Scott Conant
Scott Conant is an American chef and Food Network personality known for L'Impero, Scarpetta, and judging Chopped. Culinary Institute of America graduate; James Beard winner; founder of Martone Street.
Scottish cuisine
Scottish cuisine: traditional cooking of Scotland built on oats, dairy, root vegetables, and hardy livestock; known for haggis (national dish, first recipe 15th century), cullen skink, cranachan, shortbread, whisky, and PGI-protected produce like Stornoway Black Pudding and Ayrshire Dunlop cheese.
Scoubidou
Scoubidou: a French craft of braiding colorful plastic cords into key chains and bracelets, started in the late 1950s and named after Sacha Distel's 1958 song; also called gimp or boondoggle, revived in the 2000s.
Scouse (food)
Scouse (from lobscouse) is Liverpool's traditional beef or lamb stew with potatoes, carrots, and onions, first recorded in a 1797 Liverpool poorhouse report; it gave Scousers their nickname and has a meatless variant, blind scouse.
Scoville scale
Scoville scale: measures chili pepper pungency in Scoville Heat Units (SHU), devised by Wilbur Scoville in 1912 as a dilution taste test, now determined by HPLC under ASTA 21.3 and AOAC 995.03, from 0 SHU bell pepper to 16,000,000 SHU pure capsaicin.
Scrambled eggs
Scrambled eggs (œufs brouillés, huevos revueltos): beaten eggs stirred in a pan until set into soft curds. Cooked to 160°F for safety; styles range from French custardy to American diner curds.
Scrapple
Scrapple, also called panhaas or Philadelphia scrapple, is a Mid-Atlantic breakfast loaf of pork scraps, cornmeal, and buckwheat flour, sliced and fried; a Pennsylvania Dutch dish from German panhas, mass-produced since 1863.
Scrubs (clothing)
Scrubs are loose two-piece cotton or poly-cotton garments worn by medical personnel, especially in surgery; originally white, then surgical greens and ceil blue, with contested home-versus-facility laundering rules.
Scrunchie
Scrunchie (シュシュ, from French chouchou): a fabric-covered elastic hair tie invented by Rommy Hunt Revson in 1986 as "Scunci," after her poodle. Gentle on hair versus bare elastics; a USD 585.6 million global market in 2025 with recurring fashion revivals.
Scuppernong
Scuppernong is a bronze-fruited muscadine grape cultivar selected from the wild along North Carolina's Scuppernong River in the 18th century; the first native American grape cultivated, it dominated muscadine growing until 1947.
Sea salt
Sea salt: salt made by evaporating seawater or salt-lake water, less processed than mined table salt. Retains trace minerals, same sodium by weight, usually not iodized, harvested from solar evaporation ponds worldwide.
Seagram
Seagram (The Seagram Company Ltd.) was Samuel Bronfman's Canadian spirits multinational, one of the world's largest distillers, which entered entertainment under Edgar Bronfman Jr. and was sold to Vivendi in 2000.
Seam (sewing)
In sewing, a seam is the join where stitches fasten two or more layers of fabric or leather together; seam type and finishing determine a garment's strength.
Sean O'Pry
Sean O'Pry (born 1989, Kennesaw, Georgia) is an American male model discovered on MySpace in 2006, Forbes' top-earning male model in 2013 with $1.5 million, Guinness record holder, and Taylor Swift's Blank Space co-star.
Sean Sherman
Sean Sherman (born 1974) is an Oglala Lakota chef known as The Sioux Chef, founder of Owamni in Minneapolis and NATIFS, author of The Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen (2018 James Beard) and Turtle Island, reviving pre-contact Indigenous North American cuisine.
Sean's Bar
Sean's Bar, Athlone, Ireland: pub claiming AD 900 founding by Luain Mac Luighdeach, certified Ireland's oldest pub by Guinness in 2004; building dated c.1725, first record 1738.
Seasoning
Seasoning: adding salt, herbs, spices, or blends to food to improve taste; covers FDA and ESA definitions, herb-versus-spice distinctions, salt trade history, and sodium-reduction uses.
Second line (parades)
Second line parades are New Orleans street processions led by a brass band and social aid and pleasure club members, with dancing followers behind; rooted in 19th-century benevolent societies, with a September-to-June season.
Secret Santa
Secret Santa, also called Kris Kringle, Wichteln, or Julklapp, is a Christmas gift exchange where each participant is secretly and randomly assigned one recipient. Typical budgets run $20–$50; a valid draw is a derangement with no self-assignments.
See-through clothing
See-through clothing, also called sheer or transparent dress, is fabric thin enough to see through. Spans Neoclassical sheer muslin, 1930s slips, the 1960s Nude Look, YSL's 1968 See-Through Blouse, and 1997's Year of Sheer.
Seersucker
Seersucker: lightweight cotton plain-weave fabric with alternating smooth and puckered stripes made by slack-tension weaving; from Persian shir o shakar (milk and sugar); Indian origin, New Orleans suit tradition, US Senate Seersucker Thursday.
Seichi junrei (聖地巡礼)
Seichi junrei (聖地巡礼), or anime pilgrimage, is Japanese fan travel to real locations of anime, manga, and other media works; begun in the 1990s, popularized after Please Teacher! (2002), and now a government-backed contents tourism pillar.
Seiza (正座)
Seiza (正座) is the Japanese kneeling posture with buttocks on the heels. Formalized in samurai etiquette and tea ceremony, it spread generally in the Edo period and was named "correct sitting" only in the Meiji era.
Sekishū-banshi
Sekishū-banshi (石州半紙) is a hand-made Japanese paper made from kozo in the Iwami region of Shimane Prefecture, strong enough to survive more than 3,000 folds.
Selah Marley
Selah Marley, American model and singer, daughter of Lauryn Hill and Rohan Marley, granddaughter of Bob Marley; known for Calvin Klein, Yeezy, Chanel, Ivy Park work and the 2021 EP Star Power.
Selamta
Selamta (ሰላምታ) is an Amharic word meaning "greeting", built on the root salām, "peace". The name also covers Ge'ez salām-hymns and a Bagana lyre scale.
Selfridges
Selfridges, also known as Selfridges & Co, is a British chain of luxury department stores founded by Harry Gordon Selfridge, with its flagship opening on Oxford Street in London in 1909.
Selita Ebanks
Selita Ebanks is a Caymanian-born model, actress, and philanthropist, a Victoria's Secret Angel from 2005 who succeeded Tyra Banks, starred in Kanye West's Runaway, and founded the Stardom Youth Foundation.