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squab

[skwob] / skwɒb /


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My favorite bites included a stuffed squab with farro, black trumpet mushroom relish, and huckleberry, as well as a whimsical dish called “The Truffle Hunt.”

From Salon May 28, 2025

Others, including squab glazed with Guinness and cocoa, channel a grand French restaurant.

From Washington Post Jul. 25, 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

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

Young Alger peddled spring water to the neighbors and raised and sold squabs.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Sometimes the Seneca ate half a dozen squabs at a time, necks tied together in a carnivorous sculpture.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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