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squab

[skwob] / skwɒb /


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

From Seattle Times Apr. 8, 2024

There were oysters, salmon with Hollandaise sauce, beef, squab, duck, roast chicken, green peas, parsnip purée and Victoria pudding.

From New York Times Nov. 9, 2023

Others, including squab glazed with Guinness and cocoa, channel a grand French restaurant.

From Washington Post Jul. 25, 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

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

For here he had seen maids roasting innumerable small squabs, each stuffed with fragrant dressing and wrapped in bacon.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes




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