pepper
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Throw in fennel seed, red pepper flakes, an obscene amount of parsley, the zest of an entire lemon or a few dashes of soy sauce.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
But if you’re a dipping sauce kind of person, mix the leftover egg yolks with 1 cup of oil, lemon juice, grated garlic and some salt and pepper to make an aioli.
From The Wall Street Journal ● 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 prefer mine on the less-sweet side, but both the honey and pepper are easy to adjust depending on your fruit and your taste.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
Tatterfell has left me a tray with coffee on it, spiced with cinnamon and cloves and a little bit of pepper.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
This $5.95 million house in Miami takes the timelessness of Midcentury Modern and peppers it with an undeniable futuristic flair, earning it the nickname “The Jetsons House.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 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 jalapeno recall came after Coast Citrus Distributors, which supplied the company with its peppers, recalled its own fresh jalapeno because of the salmonella concerns.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
Braids of dried garlic and chili peppers hung beside the shelf.
From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker
But they felt like an odd nu-disco inclusion in a lineup peppered with indie rock bands.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 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
But some residents say the giant statue is not the best way to represent the Catholic faith, in a country already peppered with religious monuments, including numerous memorials to Polish pope John Paul II.
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
His book reads as a conversational account peppered with occasional quips about contemporary political events.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
But, by 8500 BC, the Middle East was peppered with permanent villages such as Jericho, whose inhabitants spent most of their time cultivating a few domesticated species.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
There is a despondency now, with words like "depressing" and "empty" peppering the conversation.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
After studying pictures Balogun had posted on social media, some U.S. fans determined he was in Orlando and began peppering his feeds with American flag emojis.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026
He whisks the reader from oceanic thermal vents through the rise of mammals to the emergence of human language, peppering the text with goofy drawings and personal anecdotes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2025
He’s a compulsive name-dropper, peppering his speeches with boring stories whose only point is to exaggerate his relationship to famous people.
From Salon ● Sep. 10, 2025
Officers kept peppering him with questions, but he was talking especially to Anderson.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
