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Peameal bacon
Peameal bacon is Canadian wet-cured, unsmoked pork loin rolled in cornmeal, originally coated in ground yellow peas; associated with Toronto's William Davies and distinct from American "Canadian bacon".
Peanut butter
Peanut butter is a food paste made by roasting and grinding peanuts, eaten as a spread; US regulation requires at least 90 percent peanuts, with the remainder limited to sweeteners and stabilizers.
Peanut butter and jelly sandwich
Peanut butter and jelly sandwich (PB&J), an American bread sandwich of peanut butter and jelly or jam; first printed 1901 by Julia Davis Chandler, mass-market after 1920s sliced bread and Skippy, now a lunchbox staple.
Peanut butter, banana and bacon sandwich
Peanut butter, banana and bacon sandwich, also called the Elvis or Velvet Elvis sandwich: an American pan-fried sandwich of white bread, peanut butter, banana, and often bacon, famous through Elvis Presley and distinct from Denver's Fool's Gold Loaf.
Pease pudding
Pease pudding, also called pease pottage or pease porridge, is a British savory dish of boiled yellow split peas pureed thick, served with ham or pork and now a North East England staple in ham-and-pease-pudding stotties.
Pecan pie
Pecan pie, technically a sugar pie, is an American Southern dessert of pecans in a corn syrup, egg, sugar, and butter filling; popularized by Karo syrup in the 1930s and Texas's state pie since 2013.
Pecorino
Pecorino is the Italian family of sheep's-milk cheeses (pecora = sheep), including PDO varieties Romano, Sardo, Toscano, and Siciliano; Romano, though named for Rome, is now mainly produced in Sardinia.
Peddler
Peddler (also pedlar; aliases cheapjack, higler, hawker): an itinerant trader selling goods door to door or on the street without fixed premises, historically central to goods distribution, now largely an informal-economy street-vending occupation governed by laws like the Pedlars Act 1871.
Pedro Ximénez
Pedro Ximénez (PX) is a white Spanish grape variety and the intensely sweet sun-dried-grape dessert wine named after it, centered on Montilla-Moriles (over 90% of production), with minimum 15% alcohol and at least 272 g/l sugar.
Peeps
Peeps are sugar-coated marshmallow chicks and bunnies made by Just Born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, since it acquired Rodda Candy in 1953; 2 billion a year, best-selling non-chocolate Easter candy, famously polarizing.
Peet's Coffee
Peet's Coffee: American specialty coffee roaster and chain founded by Alfred Peet in Berkeley, California, April 1, 1966; known for dark small-batch roasts, Major Dickason's Blend, Alameda roasting plant, ownership by JDE Peet's and Keurig Dr Pepper.
Peking duck (北京烤鸭)
Peking duck (北京烤鸭, Beijing kaoya) is Beijing's signature roast duck dish, made by hanging-oven (Quanjude, 1864) or closed-oven (Bianyifang, 1416) methods, both national intangible cultural heritage since 2008, served carved with pancakes, scallion, and sweet bean sauce.
Pelmeni (пельмени)
Pelmeni (пельмени) are Russian boiled dumplings of thin dough around raw minced meat, named from Ugric pel-nyan, "ear-bread". Invented among Komi and Udmurt peoples, industrialized in Perm in 1938; about 400,000 tons eaten yearly in Russia.
Pemmican
Pemmican, from Cree pimihkan, is a concentrated food of pounded dried meat, rendered fat, and often berries, invented by Indigenous North Americans and later the staple ration of the fur trade, polar expeditions, and military cold-weather trials.
Pepperidge Farm
Pepperidge Farm, founded by Margaret Rudkin in Fairfield, Connecticut in 1937, is an American bakery brand owned by The Campbell's Company since 1961, known for Goldfish crackers, Milano cookies, breads, and puff pastry.
Pepperoni
Pepperoni is an American air-dried salami of pork and beef, seasoned with paprika and pepper, invented by Italian immigrants in the early 1900s; in Italy peperoni means bell peppers, and the sausage is the leading US pizza topping.
Pepsi Globe
Pepsi Globe: the circular red, white, and blue emblem of Pepsi, descended from a 1951 bottle-cap logo, made the brand's primary mark in 1971, named around 1997, redesigned by Arnell Group in 2008 and revived with an internal wordmark in 2023.
Pepsi Number Fever
Pepsi Number Fever: 1992 Philippine Pepsi bottle-cap lottery in which the announced winning number 349 appeared on hundreds of thousands of caps, triggering riots, 7,000 lawsuits, a $32 billion potential liability, and a 500-peso settlement.
Pepsi, Where's My Jet?
Pepsi, Where's My Jet? is a 2022 Netflix docuseries by Andrew Renzi about John Leonard's attempt to redeem 7,000,000 Pepsi Points for a Harrier jet and the resulting Leonard v. Pepsico contract case.
PepsiCo
PepsiCo, also called the Pepsi company, is an American multinational food and beverage company formed in 1965 through the merger of Pepsi-Cola and Frito-Lay, and headquartered in Purchase, New York.
Per Se (restaurant)
Per Se is Thomas Keller's three-Michelin-starred contemporary French restaurant at 10 Columbus Circle, New York, opened in 2004 as an East Coast interpretation of The French Laundry; known for its nine-course tasting menu, $425 price, and stars held since 2006.
Peranakan cuisine
Peranakan cuisine, also called Nyonya cuisine (娘惹菜), is the cooking tradition of the Peranakan Chinese in Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia, blending Chinese and Malay elements with other influences.
Peri-peri
Peri-peri (piri-piri, pili-pili) is the African bird's eye chili, Capsicum frutescens, and the sauce, marinade, and seasoning made from it; 50,000–225,000 SHU, spread by Portuguese trade, central to Mozambican, Angolan, Portuguese, and South African cuisine.
Peroni Brewery
Peroni Brewery (Birra Peroni) is an Italian brewing company founded in 1846 by Francesco Peroni, best known for its Peroni lager and Peroni Nastro Azzurro.
Perpetual stew
Perpetual stew, also called forever soup or hunter's pot, is a stew kept continuously simmering while new ingredients replace eaten portions; famous pots include Bangkok's Wattana Panich broth and viral TikTok stews, though medieval origins are disputed by food historians.
Perrier
Perrier is a French sparkling natural mineral water brand bottled at the Les Bouillens spring in Vergèze, Gard, since 1903, named after Dr Louis-Eugène Perrier, owned by Nestlé since 1992, and facing a 2024-2025 natural mineral water labeling scandal.
Perry
Perry (French poiré) is fermented pear juice made from tannic perry pears, not dessert pears; sorbitol keeps fully fermented perry sweet, and its heartland is England's Three Counties.
Peruvian cuisine
Peruvian cuisine, the fusion cooking of Peru combining Indigenous Andean, Spanish, African, Chinese (chifa) and Japanese (nikkei) influences; regional coast, highland and Amazon traditions; ceviche inscribed by UNESCO in 2023 and Maido named world's best restaurant in 2025.
Pesto
Pesto, especially pesto alla genovese, is Liguria's raw pounded basil sauce of Genovese DOP basil, pine nuts, garlic, two cheeses, olive oil, and salt, first codified in 1865.
Pete Evans
Pete Evans (Peter Daryl Evans, born 1973) is an Australian chef, restaurateur, and TV presenter, judge of My Kitchen Rules, paleo promoter, fined by the TGA in 2020 over BioCharger COVID-19 claims.