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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.
Sustainable fashion
Sustainable fashion: applying environmental and social sustainability across the clothing value chain. Also circular fashion. No single accepted definition; industry emits ~2.1 billion tonnes CO2e (2018), defined by circular business models and certification limits.
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.
Sutton Hoo helmet
The Sutton Hoo helmet is an early 7th-century Anglo-Saxon iron and tinned copper alloy helmet from the Mound 1 ship burial in Suffolk, excavated in 1939, twice reconstructed, and held by the British Museum, with close Vendel and Valsgärde parallels.
Suzani (textile)
Suzani (suzani, 'of the needle'): large Central Asian embroidered textile from Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, silk on cotton, chain and couching stitches, dowry tradition with regional styles such as Bukhara, Samarkand, and Tashkent palak.
Suzhou embroidery
Suzhou embroidery, or Su Xiu (苏绣), is a traditional silk embroidery of Suzhou, China, one of the Four Great Embroideries, known for its double-sided technique.
Suzy Miller
Suzy Miller (Suzy Hunt), British model and actress of the 1970s; first wife of Formula One champion James Hunt (married 1974, Brompton Oratory), later wife of Richard Burton; not the choreographer or playwright of the same name.
Suzy Parker
Suzy Parker (Cecilia Ann Renee Parker, 1932–2003), American fashion model and actress, the 1950s' highest-paid cover girl at $100,000 a year, muse of Richard Avedon and Coco Chanel, and star of Funny Face and Kiss Them for Me.
Swahili carved doors
Swahili carved doors are monumental carved wooden doorways marking the entrances of stone houses along the East African Swahili coast, from Mogadishu to northern Mozambique, notably in Lamu and Zanzibar.
Swan Service
The Swan Service (German: Schwanenservice) is a monumental baroque table service in hard-paste porcelain made at Meissen between 1736 and 1742 for Saxon prime minister Heinrich Graf von Brühl.
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).
Sweater
Sweater: a knitted upper-body garment, also called jumper or pullover. Descended from the Channel Islands gansey worn by fishermen, it became fashion in the 1920s via the Prince of Wales and Chanel, and now carries a quantified wool-recycling footprint.
Sweater curse
Sweater curse, also called the boyfriend sweater curse or curse of the love sweater: a knitting superstition that hand-knitting a sweater for a romantic partner causes a breakup, explained rationally as a costly commitment signal; a 2005 poll found 15% of knitters claiming firsthand experience.
Sweatshop
A sweatshop, a term derived from the sweating system, is a workplace marked by poverty-level wages, excessive hours, and hazardous conditions, concentrated in clothing and textile manufacturing.
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.
Swedish Textile Workers' Union
Svenska Textilarbetareförbundet, the Swedish Textile Workers' Union, was an LO-era union founded 9 April 1898, based in Norrköping, with 40,000 members by 1942; it merged into Beklädnadsarbetarnas förbund in 1972.
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 sixteen (birthday)
Sweet sixteen (sweet 16) is the mainly American celebration of a girl's sixteenth birthday, a secular coming-of-age milestone without fixed traditions, distinct from the Latino quinceañera at 15 and tied historically to driving age and debutante customs.
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.
Swimsuit
Swimsuit: garment for swimming, evolving from 1850s wool bathing dresses through Jantzen's 1921 swimming suit, Lastex, nylon, and Lycra, to the 1946 bikini, monokini, Burqini, and recycled-fiber designs.
Swinging Sixties
The Swinging Sixties, also called Swinging London, was the youth-driven mid-to-late 1960s cultural era named by Time in 1966, defined by the miniskirt, Mary Quant's King's Road boutiques, pop music, and Chelsea's Chelsea Set.
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.
Swoosh
The Swoosh is Nike's checkmark logo, designed in 1971 by Portland State student Carolyn Davidson for $35 (first commercial use June 18, 1971), debuting on "the Nike" football boot and becoming a standalone textless trademark by 1995.