Petafina, La
Dauphine, France

Goat or cow milk mixed together, with yeast of dried cheese added, plus salt and pepper, olive oil, brandy and absinthe.

Petit Carre
France

Fresh, unripened Ancien Imperial.

Petit Gruyere
Denmark

Imitation Gruyere, pasteurized, processed and made almost unrecognizable and inedible.  Six tin-foil wedges to a box; also packaged with a couple of crackers for bars, one wedge for fifteen cents, where free lunch is forbidden.  This is a fair sample of one of several foreign imitations that are actually worse than we can do at home.

Petit Moule
Ile-de-France, France

A pet name for Coulommiers.

Petit Suisse
France

Fresh, unsalted cream cheese.  The same as Neufchatel and similar to
Coulommiers.  It comes in two sizes: 
  Gros—­a largest cylinder
  Demi—­a small one

Keats called this “the creamy curd,” and another writer has praised its “La Fontaine-like simplicity.”  Whether made in Normandy, Switzerland, or Petropolis, Brazil, by early Swiss settlers, it is ideal with honey.

Petit Vacher
France

“Little Cowboy,” an appropriate name for a small cow’s-milk cheese.

Petits Bourgognes
Lower Burgundy, France

Soft; sheep; white, small, tangy.  Other notable Petits also beginning with B are Banons and Bressans.

Petits Fromages de Chasteaux, les
France

Small, sheep cream cheeses from Lower Limousin.

Petits Fromages de Chevre
France

Little cheeses from little goats grazing on the little mountains of
Provence.

Petits Pots de Caille de Poitiers
Poitou, France

Clotted milk in small pots.

Pfister
Cham, Switzerland

Emmentaler type, although differing in its method of making with fresh skim milk.  It is named for Pfister Huber who was the first to manufacture it, in Chain.

Philadelphia Cream
U.S.A.

An excellent cream cheese that has been standard for seventy years. 
Made in New York State in spite of its name.

Picnic
U.S.A.

Handy-size picnic packing of mild American Cheddar.  Swiss has long been called picnic cheese in America, its home away from home.

Picodon de Dieule Fit
Dauphine, France

In season from May to December.

Pie, Fromage a la
France

Another name for Fromage Blanc or Farm; soft, creamy cottage-cheese type.

Pie Cheese
U.S.A