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Pasta e fagioli
Pasta e fagioli, also pasta e fasoi, is an Italian peasant soup of pasta cooked with beans, soffritto, and often tomato or pork fat, existing in regional variants (Veneto, Neapolitan, Piacenza); beans reached Italy only after the 16th-century Columbian exchange; about 116 kcal per 100 g.
Pasta salad
Pasta salad: a cold dish of cooked pasta with dressing and mix-ins, served at picnics and potlucks. American versions use mayonnaise; Italian pasta fredda uses oil and vinegar. Includes history, technique, and USDA food-safety rules.
Pastel
Pastel is a dry art medium of powdered pigment and minimal binder formed into sticks, prized for color purity closest to dry pigment. Distinct from oil pastels (wax and non-drying oil, never dry); fragile powdery surface, fixatives discolour, 18th-century golden age, Degas its leading modern master.
Pastel de nata
Pastel de nata (plural pastéis de nata), also called pastel de Belém in its trademarked Lisbon form, is Portugal's egg custard tart: puff pastry filled with egg custard, baked hot until the top blisters, born of convent sweetmaking and sold since 1837 at Pastéis de Belém.
Pastel Ghost
Pastel Ghost (파스텔 유령), also known as Vivian Moon, is an American dreamrave/synthpop artist from Oakland, California, based in Austin, Texas. Her albums Abyss (2015) and Ethereality (2018) include the viral hit "Dark Beach" (2013).
Pasteles
Pasteles are Puerto Rico's Christmas dish: grated green banana, yautía, plantain, and calabaza masa filled with sofrito-braised pork, wrapped in banana leaves, and boiled; related to but distinct from corn-based tamales.
Pasteur (lunar crater)
Pasteur is a 232.77 km impact crater, a large walled plain on the far side of the Moon at 11.58° S, 104.91° E, named for French microbiologist Louis Pasteur; its satellite crater Pasteur T was renamed Anders' Earthrise in 2018.
Pasteur (Martian crater)
Pasteur crater on Mars, 116.15 km wide at 19.31N 24.62E in eastern Arabia Terra, IAU-named 1973 for Louis Pasteur; layered sedimentary floor deposits and actively moving barchan dunes. Distinct from the 232.77 km lunar crater Pasteur.
Pasteur effect
Pasteur effect: oxygen inhibits fermentation and lowers glycolytic rate, first observed by Louis Pasteur in yeast (1861). Reversed by the Crabtree effect in yeast and the Warburg effect in cancer cells.
Pasteur Institute
The Pasteur Institute (Institut Pasteur) is a private French biomedical research foundation in Paris, founded by Louis Pasteur in 1887 to treat rabies and study infectious diseases.
Pasteur's swan-neck flask experiment
Pasteur's swan-neck flask experiment was a series of demonstrations by Louis Pasteur between 1859 and 1861 in which broth in curved-neck flasks stayed sterile while exchanging air, refuting spontaneous generation.
Pasteurella
Pasteurella, genus of Gram-negative, nonmotile, facultatively anaerobic coccobacilli in the family Pasteurellaceae, named for Louis Pasteur (Trevisan 1887). Type species Pasteurella multocida; animal commensal and pathogen, common cause of human bite-wound infections.
Pasteurella multocida
Pasteurella multocida, a Gram-negative coccobacillus of Pasteurellaceae, commensal of dogs, cats, and livestock; causes fowl cholera, hemorrhagic septicemia, atrophic rhinitis, and human bite-wound and invasive infections.
Pasteurellaceae
Pasteurellaceae (Pohl 1981), type genus Pasteurella, a family of gram-negative, nonmotile, facultatively anaerobic Gammaproteobacteria in the order Pasteurellales; mucosal commensals of vertebrates including the pathogens Haemophilus influenzae, Pasteurella multocida, and Mannheimia haemolytica, with polyphyletic classical genera under taxonomic revision.
Pasteurellosis
Pasteurellosis: infection with Pasteurella bacteria, chiefly Pasteurella multocida, a Gram-negative coccobacillus. Causes fowl cholera, haemorrhagic septicaemia (serotypes B:2/E:2), atrophic rhinitis, and human bite-wound infections.
Pasteurization
Pasteurization is a heat treatment that destroys pathogens in food, most commonly milk and juice, developed by Louis Pasteur in the 1860s to preserve wine.
Pasteurized eggs
Pasteurized eggs are shell eggs or egg products heat-treated to destroy Salmonella without cooking, sold fresh, liquid, frozen, or powdered; in the US under 3% of eggs are pasteurized, with a standard 57°C, 57.5-minute process.
Pastiche
Pastiche, from Italian pasticcio (mixture), is imitation of another artist's or era's style without parody's satirical intent; Jameson called it blank parody, and EU copyright law recognizes a pastiche exception.
Pasties
Pasties are small adhesive nipple coverings from burlesque performance, originating in metal breastplates of the 1893 World's Fair and 1920s dance halls, revived in the 1990s, and now worn as fashion, distinct from the Cornish pastry of the same name.
Pastila (пастила)
Pastila (пастила) is a traditional Russian fruit confection of baked apple purée whipped with egg whites and dried, dating to the fourteenth century and most famously made in Kolomna.
Pastinaca
Pastinaca is a genus of 8-16 Apiaceae herbs native from Europe to Mongolia and Lebanon, containing the cultivated parsnip Pastinaca sativa, whose edible taproot and furanocoumarin sap toxicity distinguish it.
Pastirma
Pastirma (pastırma, basturma, basterma) is a salted, dried, pressed whole-muscle beef product coated in çemen, a fenugreek-garlic-red pepper paste, eaten raw across Turkey, Armenia, Egypt and the Balkans; ancestor of pastrami.
Pastis
Pastis is a French aniseed-flavoured aperitif spirit (40–45% ABV) legally defined by liquorice root extracts, created commercially by Paul Ricard in Marseille in 1932 after the 1915 absinthe ban, and drunk diluted one part to five parts water.
Pastitsio (παστίτσιο)
Pastitsio (παστίτσιο), sometimes called Greek lasagna, is a layered baked pasta dish of hollow tubular pasta, cinnamon-scented meat sauce, and cheese-enriched béchamel, modernized by chef Nikolaos Tselementes; Cyprus also calls it makaronia tou fournou.
PaSTo trial
PaSTo (NCT03167268), Panitumumab Skin Toxicity Prevention Trial: Italian phase 2 double-blind trial of oral lycopene 20 mg versus placebo to reduce panitumumab-induced skin toxicity in metastatic colorectal cancer; 28 enrolled, reported 41% absolute reduction of grade 2-3 toxicity.
Pasto, Colombia
Pasto (San Juan de Pasto), capital of Nariño department in southwestern Colombia, founded 1537, sits at 2,527 m near Galeras volcano and hosts the UNESCO-listed Carnaval de Negros y Blancos each 28 December to 6 January.
Paston
Paston is a three-player Armenian trick-taking card game, a Preference variant played mainly in Gyumri; its name means spades, and it uses a 32-card deck with suit-multiplied scoring to 121 points.
Pastor
A pastor is a person entrusted with the pastoral office of a Christian congregation: preaching and teaching, presiding at the sacraments, and providing pastoral care.
Pastor Maldonado
Pastor Maldonado (born 1985, Maracay) is a Venezuelan ex-Formula One driver, 2010 GP2 champion, who won the 2012 Spanish GP for Williams, PDVSA-funded, with 95 starts and 76 points.
Pastor Mike Jr.
Pastor Mike Jr. (PMJ), born Michael DeWayne McClure Jr., is a Birmingham, Alabama contemporary gospel artist and founding pastor of Rock City Church, known for Live Free, I Got It, Amen, and 28 Stellar Awards.