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culinary

[kyoo-luh-ner-ee, kuhl-uh-] / ˈkju ləˌnɛr i, ˈkʌl ə- /


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For American Jews it was a touchstone, helping them adapt, through food, to middle-class American life while not losing their connection to Jewish culinary culture.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 2026

Think of it as the culinary equivalent of shopping your pantry: What two, three or four ingredients keep appearing together in your cooking?

From Salon Aug. 25, 2026

And its culinary heritage, led by pasta al pesto alla Genovese and focaccia, may have gone viral in Italy and beyond, but taste far better here at home.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 23, 2026

A beef-tallow-induced identity crisis: Earlier this year, Luke Winkie set out to crack the biggest culinary mystery in America: Why has this old-fashioned cooking ingredient become so polarizing?

From Slate Aug. 21, 2026

He was left with time enough to rifle through a rubbish dump on his way home; the cabbage core that he found would add to Crane-man’s culinary efforts for dinner.

From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park




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