Chef Graziella
Peperoni Ripieni alla Calabrese
Sweet peppers from Calabria's sun-drenched hills, filled with the Mediterranean pantry's treasures and baked until the filling turns golden and the peppers yield to a fork.
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Chef Lupita
Pescado Embarazado Vallartense
Jalisco's Bahía de Banderas skewer, fish and shrimp threaded on wooden varas, lacquered with guajillo, achiote, garlic, and butter, then grilled fast over charcoal.
Chef Graziella
Piadina Romagnola con Squacquerone
The flatbread of my Adriatic coast, rolled thin and cooked on a scorching griddle, then folded around spreadable cheese and peppery arugula. This is what fishermen's wives made for lunch.
Chef Margarida
Pica-Pau
The petisco that keeps you at the table longer than you planned. Tender beef swimming in garlic and wine, spicy enough to demand another beer, served with pickles and toothpicks for the picking.
Chef Lupita
Picadas Veracruzanas
Veracruz's masa antojito, thick from the comal, pinched by hand while hot, brushed with manteca, and finished with salsa, queso fresco, and chopped white onion.
Chef Thomas
Pickled Eggs
Hard-boiled eggs steeped slowly in spiced malt vinegar until they turn golden and sharp, the kind of honest, old-fashioned thing that belongs in a jar on the kitchen shelf and never quite lasts as long as you planned.
Chef Lupita
Pico de Gallo con Xoconostle de Don Francisco
Don Francisco's Guanajuato pico replaces lime with xoconostle, the sour cactus fruit of the semi-desert, chopped with tomato, avocado, chile serrano, white onion, and cilantro for the picnic table.
Chef Lupita
Pictes Chiapanecos
Los Altos de Chiapas make pictes from tender milky corn, ground fresh and steamed in its own husk, a harvest botana that tastes like the field it came from.
Chef Dean
Pigs in Blankets
Miniature smoked sausages swaddled in buttery puff pastry, baked until shatteringly crisp and deeply golden. The appetizer that disappears first at every party, no matter how sophisticated the crowd claims to be.
Chef Isabel
Pijotas Fritas Gaditanas
Pijotas fritas are Andaluzas from the Cádiz fry: small hake, salted, floured, shaken clean, and dropped into very hot oil so the coating crisps before the flesh dries.
Chef Remy
Pimento Cheese Ball with Candied Pecans
Tangy, peppery pimento cheese shaped into a generous ball and coated in buttery candied Louisiana pecans, the kind of retro appetizer that disappears first at every gathering.
Chef Remy
Pimento Cheese Crostini with Bacon
Sharp cheddar pimento cheese spread thick on golden toasted bread, crowned with shatteringly crisp bacon and fresh chives, the kind of appetizer that disappears before you can set the platter down.
Chef Margarida
Pimentos Padrão
The gambling dish of Portuguese tascas. Grab a pepper, bite, hope for mild, maybe get fire. Coarse salt, hot oil, and a prayer. This is how you start an evening.
Chef Isabel
Pimientos de Padrón
Pimientos de Padrón are Galician little green peppers blistered quickly in hot olive oil and finished with coarse salt. The trick is fierce heat, a short cook, and no meddling.
Chef Isabel
Pimientos del Piquillo Rellenos de Atún a la Navarra
Pimientos del piquillo rellenos de atún are Navarra's pantry answer to a full table: roasted Lodosa peppers filled with bonito, egg, and tomato cooked down thick enough to behave.
Chef Isabel
Pincho de Txaka
Pincho de txaka is Basque, especially Donostia: surimi and boiled egg chopped fine with mayonnaise, set high on bread, and held together by one plain rule: cut it small.
Chef Isabel
Pincho Moruno Vasco
The Basque bar skewer with Moorish roots: pork stained red with pimentón, cumin, garlic, and oil, left overnight so the seasoning reaches the centre, then cooked hard and fast.
Chef Isabel
Pintxo de Anchoas del Cantábrico
A Basque pintxo built on one thing: a good Cantabrian anchovy laid over crisp bread, sweet piquillo, chopped egg, and garlic oil, with nothing loud enough to drown the fish.
Chef Isabel
Pintxo de Bacalao Confitado
This is Basque pintxo cooking: desalted bacalao held in warm olive oil with garlic and guindilla until it turns silky, then served on bread with its own glossy oil.
Chef Isabel
Pintxo de Carrillera de Ternera
This Basque-Navarrese pintxo is beef cheek cooked low in red wine until it falls apart, then set on toasted bread with the sauce reduced until it shines.
Chef Isabel
Pintxo de Idiazabal
This Basque pintxo is firm Idiazabal sheep's cheese with sweet membrillo on bread, held with a pick. The whole thing depends on the cheese: cut it thick, let it warm, and don't bury it.
Chef Isabel
Pintxo Vasco de Solomillo a la Plancha
A Basque pintxo of solomillo seared hard on the plancha, set on bread with fried green pepper and coarse salt. The whole dish depends on a hot pan and a short rest.
Chef Graziella
Pinzimonio Toscano
Tuscany's simplest and most honest antipasto: raw vegetables dipped in pools of excellent olive oil, seasoned with salt and pepper. A celebration of what restraint can achieve.
Chef Makoa
Pipikaula (Hawaiian Salt-Dried Beef)
Hawaiʻi's paniolo beef, salted and dried until chewy, then glossed with shoyu, sugar, ginger, and garlic and broiled for the lūʻau table.
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