pea
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What then to do with the other three-quarters of the pea?
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026
The nine-story Bounce Innovation Hub is home to more than 60 small companies, including AI and virtual-reality startups and an indoor farm growing arugula, pea shoots and other greens for local restaurants and supermarkets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 25, 2026
Finished with the vivid pea purée and crispy toppings, the whole thing tasted far more luxurious than its pantry origins would suggest.
From Salon ● May 12, 2026
Outside, the couple leveled the once-dirt backyard, added pea gravel, built a pergola with a handyman and installed a firepit where they enjoy entertaining their friends.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2026
There was a little pea vine that grew wild all over the hills during wet winters and bloomed pale lavender in the spring.
From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson
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He shows us what is left of the peas and wheat crop at his 300-hectare site in Suffolk.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
A range of produce, including peas, is sold at the Central Avenue Farmers Market.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
The lettuce is cooked with buttery garlicky scallions and, once wilted, frozen peas and hot chicken stock.
From Salon ● Jul. 25, 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
She does cook when Dad is home, but canned tuna, frozen peas, and mayonnaise tossed over noodles is not my idea of delicious.
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
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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
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“Just in time for supper,” declares the cook, and he begins to ladle pease porridge into the mess pots.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
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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
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
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