quintessential

As you may have noticed, each recipe features the humble pea, one of the most quintessential spring vegetables.

Seeking succor when the world seems to be closing in on you is a quintessentially human habit.

This independent streak is quintessentially American, we like to tell ourselves, and it can expand to malignant extremes.

It does, however, always include two things: lettuce and peas, a quintessential spring pairing in my book.

And if you think of many of the battles being waged today — whether it's immigrant rights or Black rights or voter suppression — you could invoke quintessential American values for change.