crumbs

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Mixing ground beef with ingredients like mashed black beans, brown lentils, mushrooms, ricotta cheese or bread crumbs can help cut costs while maintaining flavor.

From MarketWatch • May 22, 2026

Startups that spent years fighting for crumbs of the Pentagon’s budget as the handful of large defense corporations feasted are suddenly finding themselves welcomed to the table and courted by Silicon Valley venture capital.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

In exchange for crumbs of egg, wild meerkats will climb onto scales and even hold still for ultrasounds.

From Slate • May 10, 2026

When you season the crumbs directly, you’re ensuring that flavor disperses evenly throughout the loaf rather than pooling in pockets.

From Salon • Mar. 11, 2026

Beside her on the brass fender of the hearth a tea was laid out: steaming thimbles and a variety of crumbs; tea cake and crumpet and cucumber sandwich, on polished British pennies.

From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck