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Stetson
Stetson, the American hat brand founded by John B. Stetson in Philadelphia in 1865, created the Boss of the Plains, the original cowboy hat. Now Hatco-owned and made in Garland, Texas alongside Resistol, with proprietary X ratings and the Open Road as its signature model.
Steve Easterbrook
Steve Easterbrook, British executive, was McDonald's president and CEO from March 2015 to November 2019, led the Turnaround Plan, was fired over employee relationships, and repaid over $105 million in a 2021 clawback settlement.
Steve Ells
Steve Ells, American chef and entrepreneur, founded Chipotle Mexican Grill in Denver in 1993, pioneered fast-casual dining, led it through the McDonald's investment and 2006 IPO, and later started Kernel and Counter Service.
Stew
Stew, a simmered dish of meat and vegetables in liquid (FooDB FOOD00724), is a heterogeneous mixture whose flavor volatiles, metabolite transfer into soup, and low-Maillard cooking role are documented by food-science studies.
Stewart Resnick
Stewart Resnick is an American billionaire businessman, chairman, president, and co-owner with wife Lynda of The Wonderful Company (Wonderful Pistachios, POM Wonderful, FIJI Water, Teleflora), a $6 billion firm, and a philanthropist behind a $750 million Caltech sustainability gift.
Sticky toffee pudding
Sticky toffee pudding, also called sticky date pudding in Australia and New Zealand, is a British baked date sponge served warm with a butter, brown sugar, and cream butterscotch sauce, popularized by the Sharrow Bay Hotel in Cumbria in the 1970s with disputed origins.
Stiff upper lip
Stiff upper lip: idiom for unemotional self-control, stereotypically British. American phrase first recorded 1811, adopted in Britain after the 1870s, heyday 1870 to 1965, tied to empire, public schools, and wartime stoicism, now fading.
Stiletto heel
The stiletto heel, named after the Italian dagger, is a tall, very slender high heel first described in the 1930s and realized in the 1950s with steel-reinforced construction, credited to Vivier, Ferragamo, or Perugia.
Stilton cheese
Stilton: protected English blue or white cheese, PDO since 1996, made only in Leicestershire, Derbyshire, and Nottinghamshire from pasteurised milk; named for the Cambridgeshire village where it was sold; four blue Stilton dairies remain after 2024 closures.
Stinky tofu (臭豆腐)
Stinky tofu (臭豆腐, chòu dòu fu) is a Chinese fermented tofu snack brined so microbes break protein into amino acids and hydrogen sulfide; famous fried Changsha (Huogongdian) and Beijing Qingfang versions differ by region and brine.
Stir frying
Stir frying (炒, chǎo) is a Chinese cooking technique: small-cut food cooked fast in little oil over high heat in a wok, with constant stirring; distinct from sautéing by higher heat, shorter time, and wok-based two-zone cooking.
Stitch London
Stitch London, also known as Stitch 'n Bitch London, was a knitting group that met weekly in central London venues from 2005 to 2013 and taught thousands to knit for free.
Stock (food)
Stock (food): savory liquid from simmering bones, meat, fish, or vegetables; a fond de cuisine base for soups, sauces, and braises; distinguished from broth and bone broth by bones, unseasoned use, and gelatin body.
Stocking
Stockings, also called hose, are close-fitting leg coverings worn since the Middle Ages. Key facts: William Lee's 1589 stocking frame, English hand-knitting trade of 1595, and the 1939–1940 nylon debut distinguish the garment's history.
Stolichnaya (Столичная)
Stolichnaya (Столичная), or Stoli, a wheat-and-rye vodka brand of Soviet origin, produced in Riga, Latvia, owned by Luxembourg's SPI Group, rebranded Stoli in 2022 amid trademark disputes with Russia.
Stollen
Stollen is a dense German Christmas yeast loaf rich in butter, dried fruit, almonds, and spices; the Dresdner Christstollen is EU PGI-protected since 2010 and tied to Dresden's 1474 first record, the 1491 Butterbrief, and the 1730 giant 1.8-tonne stollen.
Stone Island
Stone Island: Italian luxury sportswear brand founded 1982 by Massimo Osti in Ravarino; known for Tela Stella fabric, garment dyeing, the compass sleeve badge, football casual culture, and Moncler ownership since 2021.
Stop & Shop
Stop & Shop is a Northeastern US supermarket chain founded from the 1914 Economy Grocery Company of the Rabb (Rabinovitz) family of Boston, pioneer of self-service supermarkets, owned by Ahold Delhaize since 1996.
Storage of wine
Storage of wine (wine cellaring): keeping bottled wine at about 12–14°C with stable temperature, 60–75% humidity for corks, darkness, and side-lying bottle position, so wines preserve or age in bottle rather than spoil.
Stout
Stout: dark, roasty top-fermented beer family, originally a strong porter; styles include dry Irish (Guinness), milk, oatmeal, foreign extra, and imperial stout; ABV 3.5-13%.
Stove
Stove: an enclosed device burning fuel or using electricity for cooking or heating. Covers traditional and improved biomass cookstoves, gas, electric, and induction ranges, WHO/ISO clean cooking standards, health impacts, and adoption factors.
Stracciatella (ice cream)
Stracciatella ice cream is a gelato flavor of milk (fiordilatte) base with thin dark-chocolate shards, invented by Enrico Panattoni at La Marianna, Bergamo, in 1961; distinct from the Roman soup and the Pugliese cheese of the same name.
Straight edge
Straight edge (sXe) is a clean-living subculture from early-1980s Washington DC hardcore punk, named after Minor Threat's 1981 song, with adherents abstaining from alcohol, tobacco, recreational drugs, symbolized by X or XXX.
Strained yogurt
Strained yogurt, also called Greek yogurt, labneh, or yogurt cheese, is fermented milk drained of most whey. Regional forms include labneh, chakka, torba, and Icelandic skyr; protein roughly doubles and acid whey is a byproduct.
Straitjacket
Straitjacket (camisole, strait-waistcoat): a restraint garment with overlong sleeves crossed and buckled behind the back, invented in France around 1770 for psychiatric restraint, later an escapology staple and cultural symbol of insanity.
Strawberry shortcake (dessert)
Strawberry shortcake: American dessert of sweetened strawberries, a split biscuit-style shortcake, and whipped cream; first in an American cookbook in 1847, with macerated berries forming a no-cook syrup.
Street food
Street food: ready-to-eat food and drink sold by vendors in streets and public places, also called hawker food. Covers its ancient origins, 19th-century Western spread, livelihood and food-safety roles, and regulation from Singapore hawker centers to India's 2014 Street Vendors Act.
Street food hygiene and regulation
Street food hygiene and regulation covers how mobile food vendors are licensed, inspected, and controlled; some countries have dedicated legislation while others rely on ad hoc local rules.
Street food in China
Street food in China is sold from temporary or mobile stalls without permanent premises, a practice dating to the Northern Song and policed by chengguan urban enforcement teams.
Street food in Indonesia
Street food in Indonesia is food sold from warung stalls, wheeled kaki lima carts, and night markets, supplying 50 to 80% of food intake for low-income urban workers.