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Petoskey stone
Petoskey stone: Michigan's official state stone (1965), a fossilized Devonian rugose coral, Hexagonaria percarinata, from the Traverse Group, scattered by glaciers across northern Michigan beaches; distinguished from the smaller-celled Charlevoix stone (Favosites).
Petra Ecclestone
Petra Ecclestone (born 1988), British heiress, fashion designer, and real-estate investor; daughter of Formula One's Bernie Ecclestone and Slavica Ecclestone. Founded menswear label Form and handbag line Stark; bought and sold the $85m Spelling Manor in Los Angeles; married James Stunt then Sam Palmer.
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.
Petticoat
Petticoat: a woman's underskirt worn for volume, shape, or warmth; from Middle English petycote, originally an upper-body undergarment. Key forms include hooped, quilted, corded, and horsehair (crinoline) petticoats.
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.
Philately
Philately: the collection and study of postage stamps, covers, revenue stamps, and postal history. Born after Rowland Hill's 1840 stamp; organized societies since 1886; long-run returns between bonds and equities.
Philipp Plein
Philipp Plein, German designer born 1978 in Munich, founded his namesake maximalist luxury brand in 1998 (furnishings first, clothing from 2004). Headquartered in Lugano, self-financed, sole-owned, with Plein Sport and Billionaire labels, rhinestone skull motifs, and theatrical shows.
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.
Phoebe Dahl
Phoebe Dahl, American fashion designer, granddaughter of Roald Dahl; founder of Faircloth & Supply (Los Angeles, 2013), a one-for-one linen label donating school uniforms to Nepali girls; later Gen Art creative director and Sometime Never travel club founder.
Phoebe Philo
Phoebe Philo: British designer, Central Saint Martins graduate, creative director of Chloé (2001–2006) and Céline (2008–2017), creator of the Paddington and Luggage bags, and founder since 2023 of her own LVMH-backed eponymous label.
Phoenix Crown
The phoenix crown (凤冠, fengguan) is a Chinese ceremonial crown for empresses and high-ranking women, decorated with phoenixes, gold dragons, and kingfisher feathers; four Ming examples survive from the Dingling tomb.
Phoenix Jones
Phoenix Jones is the costumed crime-fighting persona of Benjamin Fodor, a Seattle MMA fighter who led the Rain City Superhero Movement from 2010, was arrested for pepper spray assault in 2011 and drug dealing in 2020, and inspired the podcast The Superhero Complex.
Phrygian cap
Phrygian cap (bonnet phrygien): soft conical cap with forward-bent tip from ancient Phrygia, Anatolia; worn by freed Roman slaves, became the red bonnet rouge of the French Revolution, Marianne's emblem, and the Paris 2024 Olympic mascot.
Phulkari (ਫੁਲਕਾਰੀ)
Phulkari (ਫੁਲਕਾਰੀ), "flower work," is Punjab's folk embroidery: silk floss (pat) darned from the reverse of handwoven cotton (khaddar) into shawls and baghs, a dowry tradition revived after the 1947 Partition and GI-tagged in 2011.
Phyllis George
Phyllis George (1949-2020), Miss America 1971, was the first female sportscaster at a major TV network, co-hosting CBS's The NFL Today from 1975, and first lady of Kentucky.
Pi Day
Pi Day, March 14 (3/14), celebrates the mathematical constant pi (π). Founded 1988 by physicist Larry Shaw at San Francisco's Exploratorium, recognized by the US House in 2009, and the date of UNESCO's International Day of Mathematics.
Pia Whitesell
Pia Whitesell, born Pia Loyola Blanco in 1983 and formerly known as Pia Miller, is a Chilean-born Australian model, actress and entrepreneur known for Home and Away's Katarina Chapman, Dora and the Lost City of Gold, beauty ambassadorships, and her 2021 marriage to agent Patrick Whitesell.
Pia Wurtzbach
Pia Wurtzbach (Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach Jauncey), German-Filipino model and Miss Universe 2015, crowned December 20, 2015 in Las Vegas after Steve Harvey's misannouncement; third Filipina winner, UNAIDS Goodwill Ambassador, first Filipino Bvlgari ambassador.
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.