prawn
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Massara, an Italian restaurant in New York City, even serves a cold pasta: a chilled spaghetti with red prawn and briny, decadent sea urchin.
From Salon ● May 30, 2025
Ivory Coast's national dish attiéké has gained UN cultural heritage status, along with Japanese sake, Thai prawn soup and Caribbean cassava bread.
From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2024
British supermarkets are brimming with packages of coronation cupcakes, hoppy coronation ale and coronation crisps seasoned to taste like king prawn cocktail.
From Seattle Times ● May 8, 2023
Lunch was roast rack of lamb with an Asian-style marinade, prawn tacos with pineapple salsa and a strawberry ginger trifle.
From New York Times ● May 1, 2023
In the hot slurry were shreds of prawn and carrot.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
And it might also be time to turn to some lighter fish, such as tuna, salmon or prawns.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
Seated on a thin carpet covering the cardboard floor, Rauzah and her four children share an iftar meal of vegetables and prawns.
From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026
That seafood pizza with tuna and prawns wasn’t a huge seller, it turned out.
From Slate ● Nov. 13, 2025
Some say he spent most tea times with New Yorker reporter Emily Hahn, two legends living legendarily, sharing tales over cucumber sandwiches, curried prawns, scones with clotted cream and strong black tea.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2025
I’d done grilled prawns with lots of chilli and coriander, and we were drinking this delicious Chenin Blanc that he’d been given by a grateful client.
From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins
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