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Peter Luger Steak House
Peter Luger Steak House, founded 1887 in Williamsburg, Brooklyn as Carl Luger's Café, is a Forman-family-owned steakhouse known for dry-aged USDA Prime porterhouse, a no-credit-card policy, and locations in Great Neck, Las Vegas, and Tokyo.
Petit Verdot
Petit Verdot, also called lambrusquet, is a black-skinned French Bordeaux red wine grape from the Pyrenees. Late-ripening and low-vigor, it adds color, tannin, and spice to blends; 1.3% of Bordeaux red plantings, also grown in Napa, Argentina, and Australia.
Pétrus (restaurant)
Pétrus by Gordon Ramsay is a one-Michelin-star French restaurant at 1 Kinnerton Street, Belgravia, London, named after Château Pétrus wine. Opened 1999 with Marcus Wareing, split 2008, current site starred since 2011.
Pez
PEZ (PfeffErminZ) is an Austrian compressed peppermint candy created by Eduard Haas III in 1927, famous for its character-headed dispensers introduced in 1949 and made by PEZ AG (Traun) and PEZ Candy Inc. (Orange, Connecticut).
PG Tips
PG Tips, a British black tea brand launched in 1930 by Brooke Bond (PG from Pre-Gest-Tee), famous for its 1956-2002 chimp adverts and 1996 pyramid bag; owned since 2022 by Lipton Teas and Infusions under CVC Capital Partners.
Phil Vickery (chef)
Phil Vickery, English TV chef (not the rugby player), Michelin-starred head chef of the Castle Hotel Taunton, resident chef on ITV's This Morning, Ready Steady Cook veteran, author of 18 books including gluten-free titles, Coeliac UK ambassador.
Philippe the Original
Philippe the Original is a 1908 Los Angeles deli, founded by Philippe Mathieu, claiming to have invented the French dip sandwich in 1918; it competes with Cole's over that claim and is run by the Martin and Binder families.
Philippine adobo
Philippine adobo is the Filipino braise of meat, seafood, or vegetables in vinegar, garlic, bay leaf, and usually soy sauce. The name is Spanish (adobar, to marinate); the technique predates colonization and the first record is the 1613 Vocabulario de la lengua tagala.
Pho
Pho, also known as phở bò, is a Vietnamese noodle soup of flat rice noodles, beef or chicken, and long-simmered broth, the country's most internationally recognized dish.
Pibb Xtra
Pibb Xtra, also known as Mr. Pibb, is Coca-Cola's spicy cherry soft drink launched in 1972 and renamed in 2001; 40 mg caffeine, 140 calories per 12 fl oz, replaced by reformulated Mr. Pibb from 2025.
Picadillo
Picadillo: Spanish and Latin American dish of seasoned ground or minced meat with tomato, onion, peppers; from picar, to mince. Mexican, Cuban, Filipino giniling, Costa Rican vegetable hash, and Spanish chorizo-meat versions differ.
Pichaya Soontornyanakij (พิชญา สู่นทรญากิจ)
Pichaya Soontornyanakij (พิชญา สู่นทรญากิจ), aka Chef Pam, also formerly Pichaya Utharntharm, Thai chef-owner of Michelin-starred Potong in Bangkok Chinatown; World's Best Female Chef 2025, Asia's Best Female Chef 2024, progressive Thai-Chinese cuisine.
Pickled cucumber
Pickled cucumbers, also known as pickles or pickled gherkins, are cucumbers preserved with vinegar or fermented in salt brine, first pickled in the Tigris Valley around 2030 BC.
Pickled egg
Pickled eggs are hard-cooked, peeled eggs preserved in vinegar brine with salt and spices, classified as acidified food (21 CFR 114). Safe only below pH 4.6; acid penetrates the yolk in 3–6 days; home versions require refrigeration.
Pickled herring
Pickled herring, or marinated herring (Swedish inlagd sill), is herring preserved in vinegar, salt, and sugar as a cold Northern European fish dish, a semipreserve kept at pH 4.5 or below, with variants such as Bismarck herring, rollmops, matjessill, and Hokkaido's rice-malt nishin zuke.
Pickling
Pickling is the preservation of food in vinegar or salt brine, producing sauerkraut, dill pickles, and torshi, one of the oldest preservation methods, dating to 2400 BC.
Pico de gallo
Pico de gallo (salsa fresca, salsa bandera, salsa cruda) is Mexico's fresh, uncooked chopped salsa of tomato, onion, chile, cilantro, and lime, chunkier and drier than blended salsa, with fruit-salad variants in some regions.
Pie
Pie (pye): baked dish of food fully or partly enclosed in dough, from Egyptian galettes and Roman placenta to English coffyn crusts and American apple pie; word attested 1303.
Pie and mash
Pie and mash is a traditional London dish of minced beef pie, mashed potato and parsley liquor, served with jellied eels in shops dating from the mid-19th century; the Cooke, Manze and Kelly families ran them, and around 30 shops remained in 2024.
Piedmontese cuisine
Piedmontese cuisine (cucina piemontese) is the regional cooking of Italy's Piedmont: Savoy-court refinement plus Langhe peasant food, bagna càuda, tajarin, agnolotti del plin, Barolo wine, white Alba truffles, and the 1989 birthplace of Slow Food.
Pierogi
Pierogi: Polish half-moon boiled dumplings of unleavened dough, filled with potato and twaróg, cabbage and mushrooms, meat, or fruit, related to Ukrainian varenyky and Russian pelmeni; first cookbook recipe 1682.
Pigs in a blanket
Pigs in a blanket: in the US, sausages or hot dogs baked in dough; in the UK, bacon-wrapped sausages served at Christmas. Also called pigs in blankets; earliest cited print use is Betty Crocker's 1957 Cooking for Kids.
Pike Place Market
Pike Place Market is a Seattle public market founded in 1907. After being saved from demolition by a citizen vote in 1973, it occupies a seven-acre historic district.
Pilk
Pilk (Pepsi + milk) is a cola-and-milk drink, a dirty soda variant. Known from Laverne & Shirley, a 2020 viral tweet, and Pepsi's December 2022 Lindsay Lohan #PilkandCookies campaign.
Pillsbury Doughboy
Pillsbury Doughboy, also Poppin' Fresh, is Pillsbury's dough mascot created by Rudy Perz at Leo Burnett in 1965, debuting November 7, 1965 in stop-motion; over 600 ads, 87% recognition, Macy's balloon since 2009, now owned by General Mills.
Pimento cheese
Pimento cheese, also pimiento cheese, is an American cheese spread of cheddar, pimentos, and mayonnaise, nicknamed the pâté of the South. It originated in New York around the 1870s, went national around 1910, and became a Southern staple after World War II.
Pimm's
Pimm's is a British gin-based liqueur, sold chiefly as Pimm's No. 1 Cup and owned by Diageo, best known as the official drink of the Wimbledon tennis championships.
Piña colada
The piña colada is a sweet blended cocktail of rum, coconut cream, and pineapple juice, created in San Juan and the official national drink of Puerto Rico since 1978.
Pincho
Pincho (Basque pintxo) is a small Basque bar snack, typically bread topped with food held by a skewer, invented in 1930s San Sebastián; famous example the gilda; eaten bar-to-bar, paid per piece, distinct from free tapas.
Pink slime
Pink slime is the pejorative name for lean finely textured beef (LFTB), ammonia-treated beef trimmings used as cheap ground beef filler; coined by USDA microbiologist Gerald Zirnstein in 2002, it sparked the 2012 ABC News controversy, BPI's collapse and $1.9 billion settled defamation suit, distinct from pink slime journalism.