pea

The narrator of “The Behavior of the Hawkweeds” ruminates on her grandfather’s childhood encounters with Gregor Mendel, the monk whose experiments with pea plants laid the groundwork for modern genetics.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

The actual track has been filled with pea gravel, designed to minimize noise from any reverberations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026

Using that tech, MOA Foodtech discovered the best microorganisms to make use of the leftover starch and fibre in the pea protein industry.

From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026

Finished with the vivid pea purée and crispy toppings, the whole thing tasted far more luxurious than its pantry origins would suggest.

From Salon ● May 12, 2026

For instance, all cultivated peas share the same recessive gene that prevents ripe pods of cultivated peas from spontaneously popping open and spilling their peas, as wild pea pods do.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

Eat the pasta — and perhaps add peas and chicken.

From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2026

"We have jerk pork, we have rice and peas, we have jerk chicken, curry goat, stewed chicken, fried dumpling and plantain," she said.

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026

A range of produce, including peas, is sold at the Central Avenue Farmers Market.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

If you’re really worried, skip uncooked produce like salad mixes, berries, basil, and snap peas for the time being.

From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2026

We had rice most days for dinner, but I didn’t want it with peas or butter beans, or even collard greens.

From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce

This relief usually consisted of potted beef and pease pudding; items that, given the limited capacity for long-term food storage in the 19th century, had some chance of surviving the journey between islands.

From Time ● Sep. 27, 2017

Before you grow indignant, ask yourself this: do you weep at the cherry, a singular derived from the singular cheris; or at the pea, long ago conjured from the singular pease?

From The Guardian ● Mar. 25, 2016

When I realised Greggs no longer sold ham and pease pudding stotties I thought: 'Is this what it has come to?'

From The Guardian ● Oct. 27, 2010

Like pease porridge in the pot, the Louis-Conn $100-a-seat fiasco was nine days old.

From Time Magazine Archive

Supper was pease porridge and yesterday’s bread, and that caused muttering amongst the common men as well; above the salt, the lords and knights were seen to be eating ham.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

He used to wear Flowers in his smock, gold-clocks and peasen; And spindle-fruit in hunting season.

From Reynard the Fox by John Masefield

The soil along the coast is not deep of earth, bringing forth abundantly peasen small, yet good feeding for cattle.

From Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland by Edward Hayes

Of the first-named picture he observed:— "Or crowding round one pool, from flowery shelves A group of damsels bowed the knee Over reflections solid as themselves And like as peasen be."

From The History of "Punch" by M. H. (Marion Harry) Spielmann