squab
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My favorite bites included a stuffed squab with farro, black trumpet mushroom relish, and huckleberry, as well as a whimsical dish called “The Truffle Hunt.”
From Salon ● May 28, 2025
What sounds like a gimmick turns out to be luscious, and a first course of either chawanmushi or roast squab underscores a kitchen steeped in the classics.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 15, 2022
The leaf skin tastes meaty from a simmer in a bone stock of rabbit, chicken and squab with hints of allium and black truffle.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 23, 2022
Inside was riotously loud, with the cries of chickens, duck, quail, guinea fowl and the tender pigeons known as squab, jostling for space and pecking seed in tall metal cages.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 17, 2020
He had cooked squab in soy sauce so that the skin and meat were a deep, deep brown all the way to the bone.
From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep
In culinary school, she was the only student with experience in cutting off animal’s heads; taking pity on her squeamish classmates, she butchered all the squabs during the class on game.
From New York Times ● Jan. 20, 2010
On the beach, the fivesome whipped up a little barbecue that featured poached striped bass, grilled squabs and lobster farci, plus a bluefish au vin blanc.
From Time Magazine Archive
Young Alger peddled spring water to the neighbors and raised and sold squabs.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mrs. Hambur let it stay to hatch squabs.
From Time Magazine Archive
Next he bought pastel crayons, but he passionately regretted all those squabs.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
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