Switzerland

🇨🇭Switzerland

Ragusa

A bar of whole hazelnuts in praline covered with chocolate, made since wartime rationing forced the use of nuts in place of cocoa.

🇨🇭St. Gallen, Switzerland

Rheintaler Ribel

Ribel

Cornmeal cooked with milk or water and butter-roasted into loose golden crumbs, eaten with compote, coffee, or cheese.

🇱🇮St. Gallen, Liechtenstein

Rheintaler Ribelmais AOP

Rheintaler Ribelmais

Rheintaler Ribelmais AOP is protected Rhine Valley cornmeal from a cross-border Swiss-Liechtenstein production area, used for Ribel and other dishes.

🇨🇭Switzerland

Rivella

A carbonated soft drink made from milk whey, faintly milky and lightly sweet, sold in red, blue and green varieties.

🇨🇭Switzerland

Riz Casimir

Veal or chicken in a mild curried cream sauce over rice, garnished with pineapple, banana and cherries.

🇨🇭Switzerland

Roast Chestnuts

Heissi Marroni

Chestnuts scored and roasted over charcoal in a perforated drum, sold hot by the paper cone at winter street stands.

🇨🇭Switzerland

Root Bread

Wurzelbrot

A rustic sourdough bread shaped like a twisted root, with a dark, crackly crust and an open, chewy crumb, baked across Switzerland.

🇨🇭Zürich, Switzerland

Räuschling

A rare white wine from an indigenous Swiss grape grown around Lake Zürich, producing dry, floral wines with citrus and herbal notes.

🇨🇭Bern, Switzerland

Rösti

Coarsely grated potato pressed into a pan and fried in butter or lard until both faces form a deep golden crust.

🇨🇭Valais, Switzerland

Safran de Mund

Saffron grown on a few terraced plots in a single mountain village, harvested by hand each October and sold almost entirely locally.

🇨🇭Switzerland

Salsiz

A short, flattened air-dried sausage of beef and pork, hung in alpine cellars and eaten sliced with bread and cheese.

🇨🇭Jura, Switzerland

Saucisse d’Ajoie

Protected Jura smoked pork sausage with a characteristic cumin note, distinct from generic smoked sausage.

🇨🇭Switzerland

Sbrinz

An extra-hard cows' cheese aged at least eighteen months, broken into chips with a knife or shaved into curls rather than grated.

🇨🇭Glarus, Switzerland

Schabziger

A hard, pale green skimmed-milk cheese flavoured with blue fenugreek, sold as a cone and grated over pasta or mixed into butter.

🇨🇭Basel, Switzerland

Schlumbergerli

A small, soft bread roll from Basel, split and filled with ham, cheese or sausage, eaten as a quick snack from bakery windows.

🇨🇭Schwyz, Switzerland

Schwyzer Alpkase

Schwyzer Alpkase is a firm cow-milk mountain cheese made from summer alpine pasture milk, with a nutty savoury body.

🇨🇭St. Gallen, Switzerland

Schüblig

A lightly smoked pork and beef sausage, coarser than a cervelat, boiled and served with potato salad or bread.

🇨🇭Solothurn, Switzerland

Soledurner wysüppli

Soledurner wysüppli is a Solothurn white-wine soup thickened with egg yolk and cream, often served with toasted bread.

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Sour Braised Beef

Suure Mocke

Beef marinated for days in vinegar, wine and spices, then braised until it can be pulled apart, served with spätzli and red cabbage.

🇨🇭St. Gallen, Switzerland

St Gallen Veal Sausage

St. Galler Bratwurst

A pale veal and pork sausage with milk, grilled without splitting and eaten in the hand with a piece of bread.

🇨🇭St. Gallen, Switzerland

St. Gallen Bread

St. Galler Brot

A rustic white bread from St. Gallen with a flour-dusted, slashed crust and a soft, airy crumb, baked in a wood-fired oven.

🇨🇭Nidwalden, Switzerland

Stunggis

Stunggis is a Swiss farmhouse stew of cabbage, potatoes and smoked pork simmered until the vegetables soften into the broth.

🇱🇮St. Gallen, Liechtenstein

Surchäs / Bloder-Sauerkäse

Surakäs

Surchäs / Bloder-Sauerkäse is a protected sour-milk cheese from the Swiss and Liechtenstein Rhine Valley, known locally as Surchäs, Bloderchäs, or Surakäs.

🇨🇭Switzerland

Swiss French Toast

Fotzelschnitte

Stale bread dipped in egg, milk and kirsch, fried in butter and dusted with cinnamon sugar, eaten as a light supper rather than a breakfast.

🇨🇭Bern, Switzerland

Swiss Milk Chocolate

Schweizer Milchschokolade

Milk chocolate made by conching for hours and by using condensed or powdered milk, giving the smooth, sweet texture the country became known for.

🇨🇭Graubünden, Switzerland

Swiss Pear Bread

Bündner Birnbrot

A bread dough wrapped around a dense filling of dried pears, figs, raisins, nuts and kirsch, baked as a loaf and sliced thin.

🇦🇹Austria

Swiss Sausage Salad

Wurstsalat

A cold salad of julienned cervelat or Lyoner sausage, Emmentaler, onions, pickles and vinaigrette, a lunch-counter standard across German Switzerland.

🇨🇭Thurgau, Switzerland

Swiss Tilsiter

Tilsiter

A semi-hard washed-rind cows' cheese with small irregular holes, sold in red, green and yellow label grades by milk type and age.

🇨🇭Switzerland

Sérac

A fresh whey cheese made from what is left after hard-cheese production, mild and crumbly, eaten fresh or smoked.

🇨🇭Thurgau, Switzerland

Thurgauer Käseschnitten

Thurgauer Käseschnitten are slices of bread soaked with white wine, covered with cheese and baked until bubbling.

🇨🇭Ticino, Switzerland

Ticinese Polenta

Polenta ticinese

Coarse maize meal stirred for an hour in a copper pot over a wood fire until it pulls from the sides, served with braised meat or cheese.

🇨🇭Ticino, Switzerland

Ticino Merlot

Merlot del Ticino

The red wine that dominates the vineyards south of the Alps, planted after phylloxera destroyed the older varieties and now the region's signature.

🇨🇭Zurich, Switzerland

Tirggel

Thin, hard honey biscuits stamped with carved wooden moulds and baked at high heat so the pattern browns while the base stays pale.

🇨🇭Switzerland

Toblerone

A triangular-prism bar of milk chocolate with honey and almond nougat, broken into peaks along the ridge.

🇨🇭Vaud, Switzerland

Tomme Vaudoise

A small soft cows' cheese with a bloomy white rind, eaten young and mild, or breaded and fried until it collapses.

🇨🇭Switzerland

Tête de Moine

A small cylindrical cheese shaved into ruffled rosettes with a rotating blade rather than cut, which aerates it and releases the aroma.