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Pisco
Pisco is a grape brandy produced in Peru and Chile, each with its own denomination of origin. Key facts: Quechua etymology, 1613 Peruvian and 1733 Chilean records, differing rules on dilution and ageing, and contested international registration.
Pisco sour
Pisco sour: sour-style cocktail of pisco, lime or lemon juice, syrup, egg white, and bitters, created at Morris' Bar in Lima (1916–1929) and claimed as the national drink of both Peru and Chile.
Pita
Pita, also khobz arabi or Arabic bread, is a circular leavened double-layered Middle Eastern flatbread whose steam-formed pocket forms during 400 °C baking; used as pocket, wrap, scoop, and bowl.
Pithos (πίθος)
Pithos (πίθος, plural pithoi; Latin dolium) is the Greek name for a large ceramic storage jar used from the Neolithic to the present for grain, oil, and wine, for jar burials, and traded across the Mediterranean, distinct from the smaller transport amphora.
Pixie Geldof
Pixie Geldof (Little Pixie Geldof), English model and singer, third daughter of Bob Geldof and Paula Yates; fronted band Violet, released solo album I'm Yours (2016), walked for Chloé and Ashley Williams, and fronted Gucci's 2025 campaign.
Pizza
Pizza: baked flatbread with tomato, cheese, and toppings, born as poor people's street food in late 18th-century Naples, first pizzeria Port'Alba (1738), first US pizzeria Lombardi's (1905), now a $200 billion global industry with UNESCO-recognized Neapolitan craft.
Pizza bianca
Pizza bianca is Rome's salted, olive-oiled flatbread baked without tomato sauce, sold by weight at forni and filled with mortadella or prosciutto; about 306 kcal and 789 mg sodium per 100 g.
Pizza cheese
Pizza cheese: cheese made or chosen for pizza topping, dominated by low-moisture Mozzarella and analogues. Defined by melt, stretch, oiling-off, and browning; US standards cap moisture at 48–52%.
Pizza effect
Pizza effect: cultural re-enculturation coined by Agehananda Bharati (Leopold Fischer) in 1970; a cultural form exported, transformed abroad, and reimported with new prestige, reshaping the origin community's self-understanding; applied to Hinduism, yoga, Buddhism, nationalism.
Pizza in Brazil
Pizza in Brazil (pizza brasileira): Italian-immigrant dish adapted in São Paulo into large thin-crust pies with corn, catupiry, and calabresa. Brazil is the world's second-largest pizza consumer, with about 40,332 pizzarias in 2025 and Dia da Pizza on 10 July.
Pizza in the United States
Pizza in the United States, also called American pizza, is a family of regional baked flatbreads descended from Neapolitan pizza, with styles like New York and Chicago deep dish.
Pizza Margherita
Pizza Margherita, the tomato, mozzarella, basil, and olive oil pizza of Naples; traditionally credited to Raffaele Esposito for Queen Margherita of Savoy in 1889, though historians question that origin story; STG-protected and tied to UNESCO-listed Neapolitan pizza-making.
Plague doctor costume
The plague doctor costume, also known as the beak doctor costume, is the beaked-mask outfit popularly associated with physicians treating plague in early modern Europe from the mid-seventeenth century.
Plains beadwork
Plains beadwork is the Indigenous art of the Great Plains of sewing glass trade beads onto hides and cloth, which replaced porcupine quillwork in the late 1800s.
Planet Hollywood
Planet Hollywood: movie-themed restaurant chain founded 1991 by Keith Barish and Robert Earl with celebrity stockholders Schwarzenegger, Willis, Stallone, Moore; peaked at 87 outlets, went bankrupt twice, now an Earl Enterprises licensing brand.
Plant milk
Plant milk (plant-based milk alternative, nondairy milk, 植物性ミルク) is a beverage of legumes, cereals, nuts, or seeds extracted in water as a dairy substitute; soy, almond, oat, coconut, and rice types differ in protein, fortification, environmental footprint, and naming rules.
Plastic bottle
Plastic bottle: molded polymer container, chiefly PET, patented by Nathaniel Wyeth in 1973 and made by injection stretch blow molding. Dominant beverage packaging; recycling outcomes vary from 9% globally to over 85% in Japan.
Plastic wrap
Plastic wrap (cling film, Saran wrap): thin transparent plastic film in rolls that clings to food and containers to keep food fresh. Discovered as PVDC at Dow in 1933; now mostly LDPE; hard to recycle.
Platform shoe
Platform shoe: footwear with a very thick, high sole under the whole foot. Known historically as chopines in Venice, revived by Ferragamo in 1938, disco-era 1970s, Spice Girls 1990s, and Balenciaga 2017.
Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth II
The Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth II (2022) marked 70 years since her 6 February 1952 accession, the first Platinum Jubilee of a British monarch, celebrated over a four-day June weekend with Trooping the Colour, a St Paul's thanksgiving service, and the Platinum Pageant.
Playboy Bunny
Playboy Bunny: waitress at a Playboy Club wearing the trademarked bunny suit (corset leotard, ears, tail, collar, cuffs), debuted in Chicago in 1960; concept by Ilsa Taurins, refined by Hugh Hefner, distinct from the bunny logo.
Please Take Care of My Refrigerator (냉장고를 부탁해)
Please Take Care of My Refrigerator (냉장고를 부탁해, Chef & My Fridge) is a JTBC Korean cooking variety show (2014-2019, revived December 15, 2024 on JTBC and Netflix) where chefs compete in 15-minute battles using only ingredients from celebrity guests' refrigerators hauled into the studio.
Ploughman's lunch
Ploughman's lunch: a cold British pub meal of bread, cheese, pickle and salad. Named by the Cheese Bureau in 1957 to sell cheese after rationing, though bread, cheese and ale were field workers' food for centuries.
Plus-size clothing
Plus-size clothing is apparel for bodies above a retailer's standard range, commonly from US size 14. Covers stoutwear history via Lane Bryant (1904), ASTM 14W–40W sizing, a USD 311.4 billion global market, fit problems, and the GLP-1-era retail pullback.
Plus-size model
Plus-size model: a fashion model above the industry's straight-size range, also called curve models. Distinctive facts: the modeling threshold sits far below retail plus-size (a US 10 can qualify), non-White models are 4.5 times more likely to be plus-size, and runway plus-size share is only about 0.3%.
Plymouth Gin
Plymouth Gin: gin brand and former gin style made at the Black Friars Distillery, Plymouth, England, since the 1790s; 41.2% ABV, seven botanicals, copper pot still, ex-PGI, Pernod Ricard owned.
Pnina Tornai (פנינה תורני)
Pnina Tornai (פנינה תורני), Israeli couture bridal designer based at Kleinfeld Bridal since 2004 and star of TLC's Say Yes to the Dress, known for corseted Swarovski-crystal gowns, the Love by Pnina Tornai line, and Jared diamond jewelry.
Po' boy
Po' boy, a New Orleans sandwich on local French bread filled with fried seafood or roast beef debris, dressed with lettuce, tomato, pickles, mayo; created by the Martin brothers for 1929 streetcar strikers.
Poached egg
Poached egg: a shelled egg cooked gently in simmering, often vinegar-acidulated water until whites set and yolk stays soft; also called oeufs poches or ein verlorenes Ei; base of eggs Benedict.
Poaching (cooking)
Poaching (cooking) is gentle moist-heat cooking submerged in liquid at 160–180°F (71–82°C), below simmering (185–205°F) and boiling (212°F); used for eggs, fish, chicken, and fruit, with court bouillon, milk, wine, or syrup as liquids.