Savory

Savory or Savoury may refer to:

Common usage

• Herbs of the genus Satureja, particularly:
  • Summer savory (Satureja hortensis), an annual herb, used to flavor food
  • Winter savory (Satureja montana), a perennial herb, also used to flavor food, but less common than summer savory
  • Savory of Crete (Satureja thymbra), an evergreen herb native to Eurasia, rarely used in seasoning food

Food

• Savoury (dish), a small savoury dish, traditionally served towards the end of a formal meal in some European cuisine
• Savory (ice cream), a brand of ice cream from Nestlé
• Savoury pattie, a battered and deep fried disc of mashed potato, seasoned with sage
• Savoury pie, pies with savoury ingredients, as opposed to sweet pies
• Umami, also called savoriness, one of the basic tastes detected by the human tongue

People

• Allan Savory (born 1935), Zimbabwean environmentalist, inventor of the Savory brittleness scale
• Borradaile Savory (1855–1906), English Anglican priest
• Brett Alexander Savory (born 1973), Canadian writer
• Charles Savory (1889–1915), New Zealand rugby league footballer
• Dennis Savory (born 1943), British archer and Olympian
• Douglas Savory (1878–1969), Northern Irish politician
• Gerald Savory (1909–1996), English playwright and screenwriter
• Graham Savory (born 1960), British discus thrower
• Heather Savory (born 1963), British statistician and open data advocate
• Henry Savory (1914–2008), English cricketer
• James Henry Savory (1855–1903), English clergyman, a Double Blue, cricketer, and footballer
• Joseph Savory (1843–1931), English politician
• Kemol Savory (born 1996), Guyanese cricketer
• Martha Savory Yeardley (1781–1851), English poet and Quaker minister
• Michael Savory (born 1943), English politician and Lord Mayor of London for 2004-05
• Nathaniel Savory (1794–1874), American colonist to the Bonin Islands
• Nirvana Savoury, Canadian musician and member of X-Quisite
• Reg Savory (1908–1989), New Zealand businessman and politician
• Reginald Savory (1894–1980), British Indian Army officer
• Roger Savory (1925–2022), British-born Canadian Iranologist and specialist on the Safavids
• Sim Savory (1946–2010), Canadian musician and member of Simani
• Teo Savory (1907–1989), American novelist, poet, and translator
• William Scovell Savory (1826–1895), British surgeon
• William Savory (1916–2004), audio engineer

Other uses

• "Savory" (song), a 1994 single by the band Jawbox

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Savory
• All pages with titles containing Savory
• Savery, a surname
• Savor (disambiguation)
• Savory Creek, Western Australia