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[res-uh-pee] / ˈrɛs ə pi /


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The meat, cured at Burbank’s RC Provisions with a proprietary recipe developed by Al Langer, still gets a lengthy — and costly — steaming after it arrives at the restaurant.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

He says he's made the same recipe so many times he describes it as "muscle memory".

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

My House Spice, which I use on pretty much everything, is my mother’s recipe, a Creole and Cajun spice blend with salt, pepper, granulated onion and garlic, cayenne and paprika.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

Once people love a jar rather than merely use it, corporate ownership can start to feel less like a business transaction than someone acquiring custody of a family recipe.

From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026

It was a special family recipe, but this was the first time I’d helped to make it.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler

All of the recipes can be made by stocking up a starter store cupboard for under £13.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

Their recipes acquire a little micro-mythology in your kitchen.

From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026

Users can now regularly get answers to their questions about major world events, stock market moves and recipes via AI-generated search results and chatbots, limiting the need to visit news sites directly.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

Last year, the company changed its popular strawberry shake and signature pink lemonade recipes to remove red dye No. 40, a synthetic additive used to give foods and drinks a bright red hue.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

In showing that many alchemical recipes can indeed be performed in a modern laboratory, these scholars have rendered apparently incomprehensible texts meaningful and reinstated alchemy as a laboratory science.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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