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Street food in media and popular culture
How documentaries and television portray street food, from Anthony Bourdain's demystifying travel shows to Netflix's Street Food series, Michelin stars for vendors, and scholarly criticism of authenticity.
Street food in Mexico
Street food in Mexico is food prepared and sold from public stalls, carts, and market stands, an informal trade with roughly 805,000 vendors in 2025.
Streetwear
Streetwear is casual, culture-driven fashion built around hoodies, graphic T-shirts, and sneakers, which grew out of 1980s and 1990s youth subcultures including hip-hop, skateboarding, surf, punk, and graffiti.
String cheese
String cheese, also known as Cheesestring, is a snack cheese made from low-moisture mozzarella that can be peeled into strings, invented in Wisconsin in the mid-20th century.
Strip steak
Strip steak, also called New York strip or Kansas City strip, is a beef steak from the short loin's longissimus dorsi muscle after tenderloin removal; known for firm texture, beefy flavor, moderate marbling, and many regional names.
Stroh Brewery Company
Stroh Brewery Company: Detroit brewery founded by Bernhard Stroh in 1850, famous for fire-brewed Bohemian-style lager and its lion crest. Grew into America's third-largest brewer before debt from the Schlitz and Heileman acquisitions ended it in 1999; the Stroh's brand now belongs to Pabst.
Stromboli (food)
Stromboli is an Italian-American baked turnover of pizza or bread dough filled with cheese, cured meats, and vegetables, credited to a Philadelphia pizzeria in the 1950s and named after the 1950 film Stromboli.
Stroopwafel
Stroopwafel (syrup waffle): Dutch cookie of two thin waffle discs with syrup filling, invented in Gouda around 1810, credited to baker Gerard Kamphuisen; oldest recipe 1840, warmed on coffee.
Strudel
Strudel: Central European pastry of paper-thin stretched dough (Strudelteig) rolled around sweet or savory fillings; German for "whirlpool"; oldest recipe a 1696 Viennese Milchrahmstrudel; apple strudel is an Austrian national dish.
Studio pottery
Studio pottery is the hand-making of ceramics by individual artist-potters in their own studios, ranging from tableware to sculpture, emerging in the early twentieth century.
Stuffed peppers
Stuffed peppers: hollowed peppers filled with meat, rice, vegetables, or cheese, then baked or simmered. Known as töltött paprika, punjene paprike, ardei umpluți; Ottoman dolma lineage; US version dates to Fannie Farmer 1896.
Stuffed toy
Stuffed toy (plush toy, soft toy): a fabric toy with soft filling, usually animal-shaped. Teddy bear created 1902 by Morris Michtom and Richard Steiff, named after Theodore Roosevelt; regulated under ASTM F963 and EU Regulation 2025/2509.
Stuffing
Stuffing, also called filling or dressing, is a bread- or starch-based mixture cooked inside poultry or meat or baked separately. Key facts: 165 °F safe temperature, 3/4 cup per pound, regional U.S. naming, 1538 first English attestation.
Stumpwork
Stumpwork, also called raised work or raised embroidery, is three-dimensional embroidery peaked in 17th-century England, worked in silk and metal threads on satin with padding, wire, and slips on caskets and mirror frames.
Stüssy
Stüssy is an American streetwear brand founded around 1980 by Laguna Beach surfboard shaper Shawn Stussy, who signed his boards and T-shirts with his scrawled surname; formally established in 1984 with Frank Sinatra Jr., it pioneered the International Stüssy Tribe and global streetwear.
Subway (restaurant)
Subway, founded 1965 as Pete's Super Submarines by Fred DeLuca and Dr. Peter Buck in Bridgeport, Connecticut, is the world's largest sub sandwich franchise, with nearly 37,000 outlets in over 100 countries; owned by Roark Capital since 2024, its U.S. unit count is shrinking.
Succotash
Succotash (Narragansett msickquatash, "boiled whole kernels of corn") is a North American dish of corn and beans, usually lima beans, rooted in Indigenous Three Sisters agriculture and adapted into Southern and New England cooking.
Suchata Chuangsri (สุชาตา ช่วงศรี)
Suchata Chuangsri (สุชาตา ช่วงศรี), called Opal, Thai beauty queen from Phuket; Miss Universe Thailand 2024 and 72nd Miss World, crowned May 31, 2025 in Hyderabad as Thailand's first Miss World winner; founder of Opal For Her breast cancer campaign.
Sucralose
Sucralose (E 955, Splenda) is a chlorinated sucrose-derived artificial sweetener about 600 times sweeter than sugar; FDA-approved 1998-1999, EU ADI 15 mg/kg bw/day, heat stable.
Sucrose acetate isobutyrate
Sucrose acetate isobutyrate (SAIB, E 444, CAS 126-13-6), a mixture of fully esterified sucrose esters, is a density-adjusting agent stabilizing citrus flavor-oil emulsions in soft drinks at 150-300 ppm, with an ADI of 20 mg/kg bw per day.
Sugar plum
Sugar plum: a historical comfit or dragée, a seed, nut, or spice coated in about 30 hardened sugar layers, plum-shaped but plum-free; obsolete word behind Moore's 1823 poem and Tchaikovsky's Sugar Plum Fairy.
Sugarcane juice
Sugarcane juice, also called caldo de cana or guarapo, is the liquid pressed from sugarcane stalks, drunk fresh across Asia, Africa, and Latin America. It spoils within hours through inversion, browning, and fermentation, and street-vended samples often exceed microbial limits.
Sugaring (epilation)
Sugaring, also called sugar waxing or Persian waxing, is an epilation hair removal method using a heated paste of sugar, lemon juice, and water applied against hair growth and removed with it, differing from waxing in adhesion and direction.
Sugarloaf
Sugarloaf: a molded conical mass of hard refined sugar, the standard retail and export form from the Middle Ages until granulated and cube sugar replaced it in the late 19th century; also a shape term behind many hill names.
Sugary drink tax
Sugary drink tax (soda tax, SSB levy): excise on sugar-sweetened beverages, ad valorem, volume-based, or sugar-content-based. In 2023–2024, 103–116 countries taxed SSBs; a 10% tax cuts purchases about 10%.
Suit
The suit, or lounge suit, is a matching set of garments that evolved from 19th-century country wear into the standard business attire of the 20th century.
Suiyuan shidan
Suiyuan shidan (随园食单, Recipes from the Garden of Contentment) is a Chinese cookbook by the Qing dynasty writer Yuan Mei, first published in 1792 and describing 326 dishes.
Sujuk
Sujuk (Turkish sucuk, Arabic سجق) is a dry-fermented beef or mutton sausage with garlic and spices, attested since the 11th century and spread by the Ottomans across the Balkans, Caucasus, and Middle East.
Sukeban (スケバン)
Sukeban (スケバン, also 助番, onna-banchō) means Japanese female delinquent and the 1970s all-female girl gangs known for long modified sailor uniforms, concealed weapons, and the Sukeban Deka series.
Sukiyabashi Jiro (すきやばし次郎)
Sukiyabashi Jiro (すきやばし次郎) is Jiro Ono's 10-seat Edomae sushi counter in Ginza, Tokyo, founded in 1965, three Michelin stars 2007–2019, subject of Jiro Dreams of Sushi, now led by son Yoshikazu.