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
Waiters had just begun to clear plates of spring pea and burrata salad.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2026
In the soft earth of a bean, potato, black-eyed pea and asparagus patch there is plenty of food left over for mice after the human crop has been gathered.
From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien
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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
It has not ruled out other common sources of contamination like basil, raspberries or snow peas, or identified a grower or supplier that is responsible.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
Chilled sweet peas and ribbons of summer zucchini are tossed separately with olive oil, more lemon juice and handfuls of fresh herbs.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026
Every time the raven cried “Nevermore!” the children would toss their peas in the air and try to catch them in their mouths.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
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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
When I realised Greggs no longer sold ham and pease pudding stotties I thought: 'Is this what it has come to?'
From The Guardian ● Oct. 27, 2010
From then until "Teapot Dome" there was comparative pease.
From Time Magazine Archive
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She stared at the supper set before her trout wrapped in bacon, salad of turnip greens and red fennel and sweetgrass, pease and onions and hot bread.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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He used to wear Flowers in his smock, gold-clocks and peasen; And spindle-fruit in hunting season.
From Reynard the Fox by Masefield, John
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 Spielmann, M. H. (Marion Harry)
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 Hayes, Edward, fl. 1580.