pea
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They have experimented with juice from jagua, a fruit found in Central and South America, and petals from the butterfly pea flower in Southeast Asia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
What then to do with the other three-quarters of the pea?
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026
The plate that my pea risotto was served on was much larger than the serving of risotto itself.
From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2026
For more than a century, biology has been guided by the principles of inheritance first described by Gregor Mendel through his famous pea plant experiments.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 1, 2026
Penelope called it “The Princess and the Very Tiny Biscuit,” and the children much preferred it to any story involving a pea.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
A red cartoon hunk of steak, a bronzed turkey, a few shrimp, a tub of unsweetened yogurt, an apple and a bag of frozen peas cascade alongside him.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026
A range of produce, including peas, is sold at the Central Avenue Farmers Market.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
If you’re really worried, skip uncooked produce like salad mixes, berries, basil, and snap peas for the time being.
From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2026
In the past, foods including bagged salad mixes, fresh cilantro, fresh basil, raspberries, snow peas and scallions have been linked to cyclosporiasis.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
And he could drop peas down and his pet would eat them and no one would ever know but Sam.
From "All About Sam" by Lois Lowry
For travel updates follow @TSYalerts And pease, please DO NOT enter flood water- either by car or on foot.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 8, 2019
This relief usually consisted of potted beef and pease pudding; items that, given the limited capacity for long-term food storage in the 19th century, had some chance of surviving the journey between islands.
From Time ● Sep. 27, 2017
Before you grow indignant, ask yourself this: do you weep at the cherry, a singular derived from the singular cheris; or at the pea, long ago conjured from the singular pease?
From The Guardian ● Mar. 25, 2016
Like pease porridge in the pot, the Louis-Conn $100-a-seat fiasco was nine days old.
From Time Magazine Archive
There were great loaves of brown bread, mounds of turnips and sweetcom and pease, immense hams and roast geese and trenchers dripping full of venison stewed with beer and barley.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
He used to wear Flowers in his smock, gold-clocks and peasen; And spindle-fruit in hunting season.
From Reynard the Fox by John Masefield
The soil along the coast is not deep of earth, bringing forth abundantly peasen small, yet good feeding for cattle.
From Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland by Edward Hayes
Of the first-named picture he observed:— "Or crowding round one pool, from flowery shelves A group of damsels bowed the knee Over reflections solid as themselves And like as peasen be."
From The History of "Punch" by M. H. (Marion Harry) Spielmann
