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squab

[skwob] / skwɒb /


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The second choice, brined squab glazed with Guinness and cocoa, summons one of those restaurants you book months ahead for in France.

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

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

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

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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