pepper
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WSJ | Buy Side: These pepper mills help you add depth, flavor and enticing aroma to your dishes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Red pepper flakes and black pepper bring heat, while fresh thyme and lemon zest keep all that brown-on-brown flavor from becoming monotonous.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026
"Coffee and pepper have suffered because of changing climatic conditions, making diversification essential for farmers."
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
Photos of sons, daughters, uncles and husbands pepper Chinese social media, shared by people hoping for news about relatives missing since deadly floods on the border with Nepal last week.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
I stared at Nan’s kissing squirrel salt and pepper shakers.
From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry
He also grows tomatoes, peppers, chillies, watermelons and sweet potatoes to avoid having to rely heavily on supermarkets.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
Even when the tomatoes are gone and the bread stall is picked clean, you can usually find some jar of something sharp, spicy and brined: giardiniera, hot peppers, spicy dills, pickled carrots.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
Chipotle says it has removed jalapeños from some of its restaurants after determining the peppers could be tied to a salmonella outbreak public health officials are investigating.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
The California-based company said Sunday that it was voluntarily pulling the products because they contained jalapeño peppers tied to an earlier recall by Coast Citrus Distributors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
I hate eggplant and green peppers, but I love pizza.
From "Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World" by Malala Yousafzai
Chris Slevin, who visited Beijing in July as a commissioner of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, said Chinese officials peppered his delegation with questions about the bilateral AI dialogue.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
His calls for action are peppered with the occasional "Amen", pronounced in the American way, with the first syllable said "ay" rather than "ah".
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
Hundreds of robotics startups, some just a couple years old, peppered the sprawling convention centre hoping to dazzle.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
As I peppered him with questions about the pink car and the Brinks armored truck, he remained cagey while slowly yielding information.
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026
Dad peppered him with history questions until they made it to World War II, and then they moved into an analytical discussion of wartime tactics.
From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia
Hobbyists aren’t just peppering their résumés with any old activity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
There is a despondency now, with words like "depressing" and "empty" peppering the conversation.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
Their restraint with peppering the dialogue with blatant evil effectively allows the version of fear hiding behind the surface politeness of America’s nicest small towns to seep into our consciousness.
From Salon ● Dec. 8, 2025
Melyssa Rivas recorded community members peppering federal agents with questions about why they were chasing the man.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2025
Astonished fans and journalists gathered around them on the dock, peppering them with questions: Was the University of Washington in the District of Columbia?
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
