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sorrel

[sawr-uhl, sor-] / ˈsɔr əl, ˈsɒr- /


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One flank is covered with tranquil forests and fields where typical local crops like spinach, sorrel and chives grow.

From Barron's ● Nov. 26, 2025

"Stinging nettles are a come again plant. Cow parsley, sorrel too. Strangely you can pick a lot of salads now," he says.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2024

Michel’s father and uncle, Pierre and Jean, were widely considered to be nouvelle cuisine pioneers, emblematized by a famous salmon and sorrel dish they invented.

From New York Times ● Nov. 22, 2023

Seventeenth-century cookbook author John Murrell recommended "egges with greene sawce", a sort of pesto made with sorrel leaves.

From Salon ● Apr. 3, 2023

Kidney beans, peanuts, green and red chili peppers, sorrel, cress, and quinoa, yucca and cucumbers, and of course potatoes and corn were piled, steaming, into the people’s bowls.

From "The Ugly One" by Leanne Statland Ellis




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