ambrosia
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Whisked egg yolks and sugar get spooned on top, like a frothy, golden ambrosia.
“Nothing calms me down,” Marge says, “like making a fresh batch of ambrosia salad. With plenty of grapes.”
For some, though, “fruit salad” still conjures images of syrup-slicked fruit orbs — maybe even veering into ambrosia territory.
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One of his early experiments was ambrosia — a salad so retro it borders on parody, but so striking in his hands it practically glows.
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The Kentucky volunteers also have to watch over the trees throughout the year to protect them from the destructive ambrosia beetles, whose larvae would quickly kill half of the orchard if left unchecked.
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