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This is the place to load up on fiber, with a weekend menu that includes an omelette filled with butternut squash and leeks, then topped with a kale and sesame salad, or a thick sourdough toast piled high with cannellini beans, roasted radicchio and hazelnuts, with dill sprinkled on top.—Valeriya Safronova, New York Times, 1 May 2025 Add the cabbage or kale and the white parts of the scallions.—Lynda Balslev, The Mercury News, 3 Mar. 2025 A couple of my favorites included a chicken tikka masala and crab cakes with potatoes and kale.—Sarah Garone, Bon Appetit Magazine, 25 Apr. 2025 Farm workers in a greenhouse plant tiny kale and marigold seeds into plastic trays, while others harvest leafy bunches of spinach.—Melanie Stetson Freeman, Christian Science Monitor, 22 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for kale
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Etymology
Scots, from Middle English (northern) cal, from Old English cāl — more at cole
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