cabbage
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Animal rights activists want a small seaside town to change its annual mackerel festival to celebrate the humble cabbage instead.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
In 1982, Il Yeon Kwon, a Korean immigrant, realized that New Yorkers needed a reliable source for napa cabbage, the essential ingredient in kimchi, and opened a small grocery store in Queens.
From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2026
The Taylor family is credited with helping to pioneer numerous innovations, from bagged salads to the U.S. industry’s first automated harvesters for romaine lettuce, cabbage and celery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
Spoon over warm rice and pile on whatever toppings you have around: avocado, cheese, cabbage, cilantro, leftover pico or a squeeze of lime.
From Salon ● May 19, 2026
Supper was almost ready and the smell of cabbage floated to them from the open hall.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
But, worse . . . state and city officials have cabbaged on to this beautiful protective machinery we have placed in their hands.
From Time Magazine Archive
The shorn tailor left the office protesting that Sir Peter had not treated him handsomely, as he had only consented to sacrifice his flowing locks, but that the Alderman had cabbaged his whiskers as well.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 20, 1841 by Various
She got a quart, and I cabbaged half for my tea-party.'
From In the Roaring Fifties by Edward Dyson
They run out of all they cabbaged here perty quick.
From Summerfield or, Life on a Farm by Day Kellogg Lee
All except one—that one lay in the plate of the man from whom I had cabbaged the lot.
From What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain
The next step I took was to order William Francis, John Thompson, Samuel Picket, and Joshua Peck to be taken into custody, on their return from cabbaging.
From An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island by John Hunter
Does not this look very much like what we call "cabbaging?"
From Notes and Queries, Number 24, April 13, 1850 by Various
And what a touching sight it is of a Saturday afternoon to see the poor, careworn clergymen gathered together in that vast reading—room cabbaging sermons for Sunday.
From Mark Twain's Speeches by Mark Twain
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