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Oyster sauce
Oyster sauce (蚝油, ho yeow) is a thick dark-brown Cantonese condiment made from concentrated oyster extract with sugar, salt, and starch; invented accidentally by Lee Kum Sheung in Nanshui, Guangdong, in 1888, now led commercially by Lee Kum Kee.
Oz Clarke
Oz Clarke, British wine critic, broadcaster and writer based in London; former RSC actor-singer who became the BBC Food and Drink wine expert in 1984 and the most-recognised UK wine critic (Wine Intelligence 2015, 18.2%).
Pabst Blue Ribbon
Pabst Blue Ribbon (PBR), also called Pabst, is an American 4.7% ABV adjunct lager founded in Milwaukee in 1844, named for blue ribbons tied on bottles from 1882, now contract-brewed by Pabst Brewing Company.
Pączki
Pączki (singular pączek; aliases Packzis, Paczky, Ponchki) are Polish filled fried yeast doughnuts with rose-petal or plum jam, eaten in huge quantities on Tłusty Czwartek (Fat Thursday) and as Paczki Day in Polish-American Chicago and Detroit.
Padma Lakshmi (பத்மா லட்சுமி)
Padma Lakshmi (பத்மா லட்சுமி), born 1970 in Chennai, is an Indian-American TV host, author, and activist, known for hosting Bravo's Top Chef (2006–2023), creating Hulu's Taste the Nation, and CBS's America's Culinary Cup.
Paella
Paella (paella valenciana) is a Valencian rice dish cooked in a wide two-handled pan, with ten canonical ingredients including chicken, rabbit, garrofó beans and saffron, and no seafood; declared a Spanish cultural asset in 2021.
Pagpag
Pagpag (also tirtir, from tira-tira) is leftover fast-food and restaurant food scavenged from Philippine garbage, washed and recooked or resold in poor Metro Manila communities such as Tondo and Baseco, at PHP 10–40/kg, with documented salmonella and malnutrition risks.
Pain au chocolat
Pain au chocolat (chocolatine in southwest France and Quebec) is a French viennoiserie of croissant-like laminated dough wrapped around two dark chocolate batons; 84% of French people use the name pain au chocolat.
Pakistani cuisine
Pakistani cuisine: wheat-and-meat South Asian cooking of Pakistan, also called Pakistani food, built on tandoor bread, nihari, biryani, karahi, and chapli kebab, with distinct Punjabi, Sindhi, Pashtun, and Balochi regional traditions under halal dietary law.
Pale ale
Pale ale: a top-fermented beer style built on pale malt with prominent hop bitterness, originating in Burton upon Trent, England, from the 1820s; family includes English bitter, American pale ale, and IPA.
Pale lager
Pale lager: family of pale, bottom-fermented, lagered beers from Czech pilsner and Bavarian Helles to International Pale Lager (4.5-6% ABV, 18-25 IBU), first brewed at Plzeň in 1842; the dominant global commercial lager style.
Pálinka
Pálinka, also written palenka, is Hungary's EU-protected fruit brandy: 100% fruit, distilled and bottled in Hungary, minimum 37.5% ABV, with Romanian Pălincă as the parallel name and eight Hungarian PDO fruit regions.
Pan de muerto
Pan de muerto (bread of the dead) is the Mexican sweet bun of Día de Muertos, round with bone-shaped dough strips and a skull knob, orange- and anise-scented, a Mesoamerican-Spanish fusion worth up to 20% of bakery income.
Pancake
Pancake: flat cake from a flour, egg, and milk batter cooked on a griddle, also called griddle cakes or hotcakes; includes thin unleavened crêpes, thick leavened American pancakes, blini, and Shrove Tuesday pancake day traditions.
Pancetta
Pancetta is an Italian salumi made from pork belly cured with salt and spices, sold rolled (arrotolata) for thin slices or flat (tesa) for cubes and rendering.
Pancit
Pancit is the Filipino term for noodle dishes, introduced by Chinese traders in pre-Hispanic times and traditionally served at birthdays as a wish for long life.
Panera Bread
Panera Bread, also called St. Louis Bread Company, is an American fast casual bakery-cafe chain whose first cafe opened in 1987, now spanning more than 2,200 locations.
Panipuri (पानीपूरी)
Panipuri (पानीपूरी), also called golgappa, puchka/fuchka, or gupchup, is a South Asian street snack of hollow fried puris filled with potato or chickpeas and flavored pani water, eaten in one bite; regional versions differ in filling, water, and name.
Panna cotta
Panna cotta, Italian "cooked cream," is a Piedmont-origin chilled dessert of sweetened cream set with gelatin; texture controlled by gelatin percentage, Bloom strength, and serving format.
Pannenkoek
The pannenkoek (plural pannenkoeken) is the Dutch pancake, a large, thin pancake filling a whole plate, eaten for lunch or dinner with sweet or savoury toppings.
Panuozzo
Panuozzo (plural panuozzi), a Gragnano pizza-dough sandwich invented in 1983 by Giuseppe Mascolo, double-baked, about 30 cm long, PAT-listed and trademarked in 2024.
Panzanella
Panzanella (pan molle) is a Tuscan and central-Italian bread salad of stale unsalted bread soaked, squeezed, and dressed with tomato, onion, basil, oil, and vinegar; first cited by Bronzino in the 16th century, tomatoes added only in the 20th.
Panzerotti
Panzerotti (panzarotti) are small fried half-moons of leavened dough filled with tomato and mozzarella, a Puglia street food especially of Bari; the word, from panza (belly), is first dated 1797, and baked versions are properly calzoni.
Papa John's
Papa John's (Papa Johns, PZZA) is an American pizza delivery and carryout chain founded by John Schnatter in 1984 in Jeffersonville, Indiana. The world's third-largest pizza delivery company operates about 6,000 restaurants in roughly 50 countries, mostly franchised, and is pursuing a turnaround under CEO Todd Penegor.
Papadam
Papadam (pappadam, appalam, papad, poppadom) is a thin South Asian lentil or starch wafer, fried or roasted; black-gram Kerala pappadam puffs in oil, Tamil appalam stays flat.
Pappy Van Winkle's Family Reserve
Pappy Van Winkle's Family Reserve is a 15, 20, and 23-year wheated bourbon line from Old Rip Van Winkle Distillery, produced at Buffalo Trace since the 2002 joint venture and released each fall in tiny allocations that drive extreme secondary-market prices.
Paraguayan postwar famine
The Paraguayan postwar famine was the hunger that engulfed Paraguay at the end of the War of the Triple Alliance (1864–1870), which left cattle herds and agriculture destroyed.
Parchment paper
Parchment paper, or baking paper (クッキングシート), is silicone-coated glassine paper used as a nonstick oven liner and cooking wrap, oven-safe to about 425-450°F, distinct from wax paper and silicone mats.
Pares (food)
Pares is a Filipino dish of beef braised in sweet-savory soy sauce with star anise, served with garlic fried rice and broth, named from Tagalog for "pair".
Parfait
Parfait: a dessert with two main meanings. The French parfait is a frozen sugar-syrup, egg-yolk, and whipped-cream dessert; the American parfait is a layered yogurt, fruit, and granola cup; Japan developed tall layered fruit parfaits.