squab
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But Sun Sui Wah’s most famous dish remains the roasted squab.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 8, 2024
The elegant entree, topped with toasted pine nuts and cocoa nibs, comes with a twist on boulangère potatoes: sliced celery root paired with squab mousse.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 15, 2022
Stir-fried lettuce is among the best-known iceberg preparations in the Chinese-American culinary canon, but "the poster child for iceberg is minced squab or duck served in a lettuce cup," says Ho.
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
In culinary school, she was the only student with experience in cutting off animal’s heads; taking pity on her squeamish classmates, she butchered all the squabs during the class on game.
From New York Times ● Jan. 20, 2010
Mrs. Hambur let it stay to hatch squabs.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the beach, the fivesome whipped up a little barbecue that featured poached striped bass, grilled squabs and lobster farci, plus a bluefish au vin blanc.
From Time Magazine Archive
Young Alger peddled spring water to the neighbors and raised and sold squabs.
From Time Magazine Archive
For here he had seen maids roasting innumerable small squabs, each stuffed with fragrant dressing and wrapped in bacon.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
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