squab

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What sounds like a gimmick turns out to be luscious, and a first course of either chawanmushi or roast squab underscores a kitchen steeped in the classics.

From Washington Post • Jul. 15, 2022

The leaf skin tastes meaty from a simmer in a bone stock of rabbit, chicken and squab with hints of allium and black truffle.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 23, 2022

"Mr. Jiu's in Chinatown" includes a recipe for squab in lettuce cups, though not iceberg.

From Salon • May 28, 2021

Inside was riotously loud, with the cries of chickens, duck, quail, guinea fowl and the tender pigeons known as squab, jostling for space and pecking seed in tall metal cages.

From The Guardian • Jun. 17, 2020

He had cooked squab in soy sauce so that the skin and meat were a deep, deep brown all the way to the bone.

From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep