flour

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Brazil’s coffee-growing monoculture left much of the country dependent on imported food, particularly white flour from the slave-worked mills of Richmond, which in turn encouraged the development of new capital-intensive wheat plantations in Virginia.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

Both companies and other food firms, are legally obliged to maintain strategic reserves of critical items, such as flour, sugar and cooking oils.

From BBC • Mar. 18, 2026

The meat is then coated in flour, eggs and breadcrumbs before it’s fried in oil.

From Salon • Feb. 26, 2026

Glasses of helo-murr, a bittersweet drink made from corn flour, lined the table.

From Barron's • Feb. 19, 2026

What Nim liked best about cooking bread was watching the dough she’d mixed from dry flour, yeast, and water puff into warm, fresh bread.

From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr