cob
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Serve them with grilled Caesar salad, corn on the cob and something bright and fresh alongside.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026
Some are molded into corn on the cob, celery and rhubarb shapes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
Unlike materials like cob, straw bale is adopted in the California residential building code.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 28, 2025
Emulsified elote batter is molded to resemble corn on the cob.
From Salon ● Dec. 3, 2024
He found an old corn cob lying by the side of the road and started playing with it.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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
I learned that the distillery makes its bourbon from local Jimmy Red corn, which was two cobs away from extinction before High Wire rescued it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 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
"Some of the horses were standing in water - our big cobs were up to their knees in it," she said.
From BBC ● Jan. 16, 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
