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Paul Smith (fashion designer)
Sir Paul Smith (born 1946, Nottingham) is the British fashion designer behind the 'classics with a twist' label Paul Smith, founded with a 1970 Nottingham shop; about 130 stores worldwide, independent, knighted 2000, Companion of Honour 2020.
Paul Tazewell
Paul Tazewell (born 1964, Akron, Ohio) is an American costume designer known for Hamilton, Wicked, and West Side Story; first Black man to win the Best Costume Design Oscar (2025), also a Tony and Emmy winner.
Paula Deen
Paula Deen, born 1947 in Albany, Georgia, is a Southern restaurateur, cookbook author, and Food Network star of Paula's Home Cooking. Her 2013 deposition admitting use of the N-word ended her Food Network show and major sponsorships; her Savannah restaurant The Lady & Sons closed in 2025.
Paulina Vega
Paulina Vega Dieppa, Colombian model and presenter born in Barranquilla in 1993, won Señorita Colombia 2013 and Miss Universe 2014 in Miami; later host of Caracol's "A Otro Nivel".
Pavlikeni
Pavlikeni (Павликени), a town in central northern Bulgaria, is known for the Roman ceramic production centre at Varbovski Livadi: a villa rustica with about fifty kilns, excavated by Bogdan Sultov from 1971, now an open-air museum.
Payot (פאות)
Payot (פאות, pe'ot, payos) are Jewish sidelocks from the Torah's ban on rounding the corners of the head (Leviticus 19:27); long curled locks are a Hasidic and Yemenite custom, not a biblical requirement.
Pazyryk Carpet
The Pazyryk Carpet, also called the Pazyryk rug, is the oldest surviving knotted-pile carpet, excavated in 1949 from an ice-preserved Scythian burial mound in the Altai Mountains of Siberia.
Pea coat
Pea coat, also peacoat or pea jacket, a short double-breasted heavy-wool sailor's coat from Dutch pijjekker (pij, coarse cloth), attested in English from 1721, US Navy regs 1841/1886.
Pea fiber
Pea fiber: dietary fiber ingredient from pea hulls and pods (Pisum sativum), 71-92% fiber in hulls, mostly insoluble cellulose and hemicellulose; used in bread, meat, and yogurt; FDA GRAS as GRN 525 (2014).
Pea soup
Pea soup: thick soup of dried split peas, pork, and aromatics; Nordic ärtsoppa/hernekeitto eaten Thursdays from medieval fasting, Dutch snert (2019 intangible heritage), and French Canadian soupe aux pois.
Peace dollar
Peace dollar: U.S. one-dollar silver coin (1921-1928, 1934-1935) designed by Anthony de Francisci, replacing the Morgan dollar to mark post-WWI peace; 26.73 g, 90% silver, revived in 99.9% silver from 2021.
Peace symbols
Peace symbols: visual signs of peace and anti-war protest. Key examples are the CND peace sign designed by Gerald Holtom in 1958 from semaphore N and D, the olive branch, the dove, and the V hand gesture.
Peacock revolution
Peacock revolution: 1960s menswear movement shifting men from conservative suits to flamboyant colorful dress. Term coined by Ernest Dichter for DuPont in 1966; centered on Carnaby Street, London, boutiques like Mr Fish.
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.
Pearl (drag queen)
Pearl, or Pearl Liaison, is the stage name of Matthew James Lent (born 1990, St. Petersburg, Florida), an American drag performer and record producer, runner-up on RuPaul's Drag Race season 7, album Pleasure and Flazéda fragrance, 2015.
Pearl Lowe
Pearl Lowe, British fashion and textiles designer, author, and former singer with Powder and Lodger; vintage-inspired Somerset-made label, Primrose Hill set member, wife of Danny Goffey, mother of model Daisy Lowe.
Pearling (body modification)
Pearling, or genital beading, is a body modification inserting small beads of metal, plastic, or silicone beneath penile skin, also called artificial penile nodules or bolitas; practiced for partner pleasure and prisoner status, with infection and extrusion as main complications.
Pearly Kings and Queens
Pearly Kings and Queens, known as Pearlies, are London charity fundraisers whose suits and dresses are covered in mother-of-pearl buttons, a working-class tradition begun in the 1800s.
Pears (soap)
Pears is a British transparent glycerin soap brand created by Andrew Pears in London in 1807, the world's first transparent soap, famous for Barratt's pioneering advertising and now a Unilever brand made in India.
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 Linares López
Pedro Linares López (1906–1992) was a Mexican cartonero of Mexico City who created the alebrijes, fantastic papier-mâché creatures, and won Mexico's 1990 national arts prize.
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.