Glossary P

Pie floater refers to the Australian meat pie, prepared in the British style: A "pie floater" is an inverted meat pie swamped in mashed green peas and tomato sauce ; found especially in South Australia.

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Piece de resistance refers to a culinary term classically used to describe the main dish of a meal, typically a large, decorated piece of meat, poultry, or game. Piece de resistance is the French term for "main entree " or "principal dish".

Pieds et Paquets is the French term which literally means "feet and packages" refers to mutton tripe rolled and cooked with sheep's feet, white wine, and tomatoes. Pieds et Paquets is one of the specialties of Provence Region of France and the Mediterranean.

Pieremiacze refer to Polish fried meat dumplings which is particularly popular in Lublin, Poland Lublin is the 9th largest city of Poland which is approximately 170 kilometers southeast of the Warsaw, the capital of Poland

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Pierre Blot refers to a nineteenth century French chef who traveled to the United States and opened the first French cooking school in New York

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Deutsch: Schwein / Español: Sus / Português: Sus / Français: Sus / Italiano: Sus

A pig is any of the animals in the genus Sus, within the Suidae family of even-toed ungulates. Pigs include the domestic pig and its ancestor, the common Eurasian wild boar (Sus scrofa), along with other species; related creatures outside the genus include the babirusa and the warthog. Pigs, like all suids, are native to the Eurasian and African continents. Juvenile pigs are known as piglets. Pigs are omnivores and are highly social and intelligent animals.

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Pigeon Peas are dried peas with a sweet flavour.

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English: Pigik / Deutsch: Pigik / Español: Pigik / Português: Pigik / Français: Pigik / Italiano: Pigik /

Pigik refers to a prized and very expensive fish used for culinary purposes in Davao, one of the provinces in Mindanao Island of the Philippines. It is said that Pigik is a type of fish that only thrives in the brackish water of the Rio Grande river of Cotabato and those who tasted it swear that it has the tastiest meat but comes with a price of at least P 1,000.00 per kilo. When served steamed, it said to melt in the mouth and with slight firmness on the meat.

Pigik is called large scale grunter in English. Its species name is Terapon theraps. It is also called Imelda fish in Davao.

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Pihikete is a Maori term for biscuit

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- Piirakka/Karjalan Piirakka/Karjalanpiirakka:

Piirakka also called Karjalan Piirakka or Karjalanpiirakka (Karelian Pie/Karelian Pasties) refer to the traditional pastry from the Karelian region of Finland and is also one of the street foods in the country.

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