cob
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California earlier this year rejected citizen-led proposals to adopt cob, hemp-lime and light straw clay in its code, and recently rejected a petition to reconsider.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 28, 2025
Unlike materials like cob, straw bale is adopted in the California residential building code.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 28, 2025
Squash is the standout in this chowder, which is surprising because it is paired with freshly shucked, cut from the cob, absolutely divine, sweet corn.
From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2025
Will it be from eating corn on the cob?
From Salon ● Dec. 15, 2024
Did he know she smoked a cob pipe?
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
You can caramelize the corn in a skillet, but if you prefer it with a late-summer-smoky-char, cook the shucked cobs on the grill before cutting off the kernels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
It looks like charcoal, but the black briquettes are actually made from plant waste: millet and sesame stalks, palm fronds and cobs.
From Barron's ● Apr. 24, 2026
Within an hour, the cobs will be inside a refrigerated pack-house and chilled down to 0C.
From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2026
Above, a large skylight is adorned with hundreds of suspended corn cobs, their illuminated forms offering one of the few sources of light in the dark and moody, monochromatic space.
From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2024
Using this figure, Kirkby went back to the ancient cobs excavated from Tehuacan Valley and tried to estimate how much grain per acre they would have yielded.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
