squab

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But Sun Sui Wah’s most famous dish remains the roasted squab.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 8, 2024

The second choice, brined squab glazed with Guinness and cocoa, summons one of those restaurants you book months ahead for in France.

From Washington Post • Jul. 15, 2022

Stir-fried lettuce is among the best-known iceberg preparations in the Chinese-American culinary canon, but "the poster child for iceberg is minced squab or duck served in a lettuce cup," says Ho.

From Salon • May 28, 2021

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