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Pueblo pottery
Pueblo pottery is the hand-built earthenware ceramic tradition of the Pueblo peoples of communities like Hopi, Zuni, Acoma, and San Ildefonso, practiced for more than 1,000 years.
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 clothing
Punjabi clothing (ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਪਹਿਰਾਵਾ), traditional dress of the Punjab: salwar kameez and Patiala salwar, kurta with tehmat and dastar, phulkari and bagh embroidery, and the jutti.
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.
Punjabi culture
Culture of the Punjabi people of Punjab (land of five rivers), spanning Indian and Pakistani Punjab; bhangra and giddha dance, Punjabi language in Gurmukhi and Shahmukhi scripts, rich cuisine, festivals like Baisakhi, and the shared cross-religious heritage called Punjabiyat, reshaped by the 1947 Partition.
Punk fashion
Punk fashion: the mid-1970s anti-fashion dress style of the punk subculture, centered on Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren's SEX/Seditionaries shop at 430 King's Road, defined by ripped clothes, safety pins, bondage trousers, dyed hair, and DIY customization.
Punxsutawney Phil
Punxsutawney Phil, the groundhog of Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, has issued the annual February 2 shadow forecast at Gobbler's Knob since 1887. Measured accuracy runs 30–52%, no better than chance.
Pup play
Pup play (puppy play) is an adult role-play kink in which a person adopts a dog persona, often with a hood, collar, and other gear, guided by a handler; it grew from postwar leather culture into a large organized community with headspace, events, and survey-documented mental-health benefits.
Pupul Jayakar
Pupul Jayakar (1915–1997), Indian cultural activist and writer, led the revival of handlooms and handicrafts, founded HHEC and INTACH, chaired the Festivals of India, and advised and biographed Indira Gandhi.
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.
Purdah
Purdah (parda, Urdu/Persian for curtain) is the South Asian practice of female seclusion and veiling among Muslim and Hindu communities, marked by the burqa, the purdahnashin, and the British pre-election purdah usage.
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.
Puri Rath Yatra chariots
The Puri Rath Yatra chariots are three wooden chariots, Nandighosa, Taladhwaja, and Darpadalana, built anew each year in Puri, Odisha, to carry Jagannatha and his siblings.
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.
Purim Torah
Purim Torah is a genre of playful, often satirical, absurdist Torah discourse for the holiday of Purim, using talmudic logic to reach ridiculous conclusions orally or in written parody.
Pussy bow
Pussy bow (lavallière, pussycat bow): a large floppy bow at the neck of a blouse or dress, named for Louise de La Vallière, mistress of Louis XIV. 1980s power-dressing staple, Melania Trump's 2016 debate blouse, Swedish #Knytblus protest, and a 2026 runway revival.
Pussyhat
Pussyhat: handmade pink cat-eared cap, launched November 23, 2016 by Krista Suh and Jayna Zweiman with a Kat Coyle pattern, worn as the craftivist symbol of the 2017 Women's March on Washington.
Putting-out system
The putting-out system, also called the domestic system, was a manufacturing arrangement in which merchants supplied raw materials to rural households who processed them at home for piece-rate pay.
Pyper America
Pyper America (Pyper America Smith) is an American model, bassist of the Atomics with siblings Lucky Blue, Daisy Clementine, and Starlie Cheyenne. Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, she debuted on runways in 2015 for Moschino, Armani, and Philipp Plein.
Pyre
Pyre: a heap of wood or other combustibles on which a dead body is burned as a funeral rite, from Greek pyr (fire). Covers etymology, ancient Greek, Roman, Iberian and Hindu pyre cremation, the 9,500-year-old Malawi pyre, and modern legality in Colorado, the UK Ghai ruling, Trinidad and Seychelles.
Pysanka
Pysanka (Ukrainian: писанка; plural pysanky, from pysaty, "to write") is a Ukrainian Easter egg decorated by a wax-resist method, an ancient symbol of Ukrainian culture.
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.
Qixi Festival
Qixi Festival (七夕节, Qiqiao/Daughters' Festival), Chinese festival on lunar 7/7 when women begged the Weaver Girl star for needlework skill; tied to the Cowherd-Weaver Girl magpie-bridge legend, first listed nationally in 2006, now often called Chinese Valentine's Day.