chiefly British
: land flooded regularly by tides
—usually used in plural
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Recipes editor Becky Krystal wrote a helpful how-to guide all about the nightshade that is botanically a fruit but treated in cooking as a vegetable, answering common questions about salting, texture, cooking methods and more.
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Anna Rodriguez, Washington Post, 24 July 2024
For millennia, cooks have solved the whole rotting thing with preservation techniques like pickling, smoking, and salting.
—Caroline Hatchett, Robb Report, 10 May 2024
Beyond that, over time, largescale fish salting centers emerged, which enabled the shipping of products across the region.
—Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 7 May 2024
His unfussy approach to food shines through in this easy, no-fry eggplant parm that avoids time-consuming steps such as salting and breading.
—Anna Luisa Rodriguez, Washington Post, 10 Apr. 2024
The bluefin was sacrificed to Poseidon, and worshipped in a more domestic fashion: it was preserved by salting, and its guts were fermented into a nutritionally and financially valuable sauce.
—Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
But as much as half of salting happens on private property, like private roads, driveways, sidewalks and parking lots.
—Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 30 Dec. 2022
The team’s research showed that Vikings initially caught cod in the arctic waters off Norway’s Lofoten Islands, whose climate allows for preservation through air drying, rather than more expensive salting.
—Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 2 Jan. 2019
By 1888, enrollment had dipped notably at the West 17th Street school while at least a salting of white students had joined the Black ones.
—John Freeman Gill, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2022
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Anna Rodriguez, Washington Post, 24 July 2024
For millennia, cooks have solved the whole rotting thing with preservation techniques like pickling, smoking, and salting.
—Caroline Hatchett, Robb Report, 10 May 2024
Beyond that, over time, largescale fish salting centers emerged, which enabled the shipping of products across the region.
—Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 7 May 2024
His unfussy approach to food shines through in this easy, no-fry eggplant parm that avoids time-consuming steps such as salting and breading.
—Anna Luisa Rodriguez, Washington Post, 10 Apr. 2024
The bluefin was sacrificed to Poseidon, and worshipped in a more domestic fashion: it was preserved by salting, and its guts were fermented into a nutritionally and financially valuable sauce.
—Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
But as much as half of salting happens on private property, like private roads, driveways, sidewalks and parking lots.
—Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 30 Dec. 2022
The team’s research showed that Vikings initially caught cod in the arctic waters off Norway’s Lofoten Islands, whose climate allows for preservation through air drying, rather than more expensive salting.
—Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 2 Jan. 2019
By 1888, enrollment had dipped notably at the West 17th Street school while at least a salting of white students had joined the Black ones.
—John Freeman Gill, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2022
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“Salting.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/salting. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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