The veggies are parboiled until bright green and tender-crisp.
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Southern Living Editors,
Southern Living,
22 Feb. 2024
The mottled beans that are parboiled and salted, the toxic pokeweed cooked into tasty greens, the dumplings wrapped in hickory leaves and tied with stalks of rush — these, like the milkies, are meant to be shared.
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Jacey Fortin Mike Belleme,
New York Times,
21 Oct. 2023
Armenians boiled your parchment skin to make yellow umber
for silk and wool.
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Peter Balakian,
New Yorker,
14 July 2025
By crushing bones and boiling them to extract grease, Neanderthals tapped into a rich energy source, using techniques once thought to belong only to much later human groups.
In a surprising move, Cognition– the makers of autonomous coding tool Devin— acquired what was left of its rival Windsurf after the company’s cofounders Varun Mohan and Douglas Chen and other staff members were poached by Google DeepMind for $2.4 billion to improve Gemini’s coding abilities.
—
Rashi Shrivastava,
Forbes.com,
15 July 2025
Aside from global trade wars, Khan’s promotion comes after one of the company’s AI darlings was poached by Meta.
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