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Pu'er tea
Pu'er tea (普洱茶) is a fermented tea from Yunnan's large-leaf tea plant, made as raw (sheng) or pile-fermented ripe (shou) tea, historically traded to Tibet on the Ancient Tea-Horse Road and defined by standard GB/T 22111-2008.
Pub names
Pub names: traditional names of British public houses, derived from medieval pictorial signs (Red Lion, Crown, Royal Oak, White Hart). Signs preceded names because most customers were illiterate; a 1393 law required signs for ale inspection.
Publix
Publix, formally Publix Super Markets, is an American supermarket chain founded by George W. Jenkins in 1930, headquartered in Lakeland, Florida, and the largest employee-owned company in the United States.
Pudding
Pudding is a food word with split meanings: in British English a dessert, dessert course, or boiled/steamed sweet or savory dish; in American English a milk-based custard-like dessert. From Middle English poding, a sausage (Latin botellus).
Puerto Rican cuisine
Puerto Rican cuisine, or cocina criolla, blends Taíno, Spanish, and African influences. Defined by sofrito with culantro and ají dulce, adobo, achiote sazón, mofongo, arroz con gandules, and pernil, with about 85% of food imported.
Puff pastry
Puff pastry (pâte feuilletée) is an unleavened laminated dough of alternating dough and butter layers, up to 700, that rises by steam alone when baked; distinct from yeasted croissant dough and low-fat phyllo.
Pulque
Pulque (octli) is Mexico's traditional fermented agave-sap drink, made from aguamiel of pulque magueys like Agave salmiana in central Mexico, with 4–9% alcohol, a 24-hour fermentation, pre-Hispanic ritual origins, and current production led by Hidalgo, distinct from distilled tequila and mezcal.
Pumpernickel
Pumpernickel: dense, dark Westphalian German rye bread baked 16+ hours, EU PGI-protected since 2014; distinct from American wheat-rye pumpernickel; name from Westphalian dialect insult (1663).
Pumpkin pie
Pumpkin pie is an American spiced pumpkin custard baked in a crust, the classic Thanksgiving dessert. Its custard form dates to Amelia Simmons's 1796 American Cookery; it was promoted by Sarah Josepha Hale and is now made mostly with Illinois canned pumpkin.
Pumpkin pie spice
Pumpkin pie spice is a cinnamon-led blend of cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and allspice, sometimes clove, with no pumpkin in it; marketed since 1931, made famous by Starbucks's 2003 latte.
Punch (drink)
Punch is a mixed drink of spirits, citrus juice, sugar, and water, first recorded in India in 1632 and traditionally served from a communal bowl.
Punjabi cuisine
Punjabi cuisine, the food of the Punjab region of India and Pakistan, is a wheat-and-dairy tradition defined by tandoor cooking, ghee and butter, dishes like butter chicken, dal makhani, and sarson da saag, and the Sikh langar community meal.
Pupusa
Pupusa: El Salvador's national dish, a thick nixtamalized corn or rice masa disc stuffed before cooking with cheese, beans, chicharrón, or revueltas, griddled dry on a comal and served with curtido and tomato salsa; decree 655 of 2005 made it the national dish.
Pure Food and Drug Act
The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 (Wiley Act) was the first U.S. federal law banning interstate commerce in adulterated or misbranded foods, drinks, and drugs, signed by Theodore Roosevelt, enforced by the Bureau of Chemistry, and repealed by the 1938 FD&C Act.
Puri (पूरी) (food)
Puri (पूरी), also poori, is an unleavened Indian deep-fried flatbread of stiff wheat dough that puffs in hot oil; variants include Bengali luchi (maida), Bedmi puri (urad dal), and rice-flour pathiri.
Purified seawater salt replacer
Purified seawater salt replacer (Mediterranea Agua de Mar): filtered, deboronated Mediterranean seawater notified as GRAS (GRN 000618, FDA no-questions letter May 27, 2016) as a liquid flavoring agent replacing sodium chloride in foods.
Qdoba
Qdoba (QDOBA Mexican Eats) is an American fast-casual Mexican restaurant chain founded in Denver in 1995 as Zuma Fresh Mexican Grill, later Z-TECA. Over 850 locations; owned by Butterfly Equity since 2022; known for free guacamole and queso.
Quaker Oats Company
The Quaker Oats Company, Chicago-based American food maker of Quaker oatmeal, Life cereal, Cap'n Crunch, and Quaker Chewy bars; trademark registered 1877, incorporated 1901, a wholly owned PepsiCo subsidiary since the 2001 merger.
Quality Street (confectionery)
Quality Street is a British assortment of wrapped chocolates and toffees launched in 1936 by Harold Mackintosh in Halifax, named after J.M. Barrie's play, made by Nestlé since 1988, famous for the Purple One, Green Triangle, and Christmas tins.
Quark (dairy product)
Quark (German Quark, Topfen; fromage frais, tvorog) is a fresh, unripened acid-set dairy product of Central Europe, made by fermenting pasteurized milk to about pH 4.6 with lactic acid bacteria and a little rennet, then draining the curd without cutting, cooking, or aging.
Quarter Pounder
Quarter Pounder: McDonald's hamburger named for its 4 oz pre-cooked beef patty, created by Al Bernardin in Fremont, California in 1971, added to the U.S. national menu in 1973, switched to fresh beef in 2018, and sold abroad as the Royal Cheese or McRoyal Cheese.
Quesadilla
Quesadilla: a Mexican folded corn or flour tortilla filled with cheese (queso) or other stews, cooked on a comal or fried; famously cheese-optional in Mexico City, a 16th-century post-colonial Spanish-indigenous fusion.
Quest Nutrition
Quest Nutrition, LLC is an El Segundo, California maker of high-protein, low-sugar protein bars, chips, cookies and shakes, acquired by Simply Good Foods in 2019 for $1.0 billion; Quest net sales grew from about $345 million to $863 million by fiscal 2025.
Quiche
Quiche, best known as quiche lorraine, is a French savory egg-and-cream custard baked in a pastry crust, originating in Lorraine; the original version uses bacon, eggs, and crème fraîche and contains no cheese.
QuikTrip
QuikTrip (QT) is a privately held Tulsa, Oklahoma-based convenience store and gas station chain founded in 1958 by Burt Holmes and Chester Cadieux, operating over 1,250 stores in 23 states with QT Kitchens foodservice and Guaranteed Gasoline.
Quince cheese
Quince cheese, also called dulce de membrillo or quince paste, is a dairy-free, sliceable paste of quince pulp and sugar set by the fruit's high pectin, classically served with Manchego as queso y dulce.
Quintonil
Quintonil, a two-Michelin-star restaurant in Polanco, Mexico City, opened in 2012 by chef Jorge Vallejo and Alejandra Flores, serves contemporary Mexican cuisine with indigenous ingredients and insects; ranked No. 3 on the World's 50 Best Restaurants 2025.
Quiznos
Quiznos is an American toasted-sub sandwich chain founded in Denver in 1981 by Jimmy Lambatos. It peaked near 4,700 U.S. stores in 2007, collapsed to about 150 after lawsuits and 2014 bankruptcy, and is owned by High Bluff Capital Partners.
Rachel Khoo
Rachel Khoo is a British cook, cookbook author, and television presenter who became known for The Little Paris Kitchen, her 2012 BBC Two series built on the two-seater restaurant she ran in her Paris flat.
Raclette
Raclette: Swiss Valais dish and semi-hard cheese melted and scraped over boiled potatoes with pickled onions and gherkins; name from French racler, official since 1874, Raclette du Valais AOP since 2007.