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Know Your Food Jargon: Dried plums

Here’s your foodie word of the day.

By Stefanie Gans March 27, 2017 at 8:00 am

Photo courtesy of Handmade Pictures/Adobe Stock
Photo courtesy of Handmade Pictures/Adobe Stock

Here’s your foodie word of the day:

Dried plums (n.): Prunes, of course, though Sam Sifton, food editor of The New York Times, wants to rebrand them “so people don’t wrinkle their noses when I call for them in a recipe.”

(March 2017)

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