Blanch or blanching may refer to:

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Andrea Blanch Andrea Blanch, is an American portrait, commercial, and fine art photographer. Blanch was born in Brooklyn and raised in Great Neck, New York. She graduated from Ohio State University with a Bachelor of Arts in Painting. After working under Ric ...

(born 1935), portrait, commercial, and fine art photographer *

Arnold Blanch Arnold Blanch (June 4, 1896 – October 3, 1968), was born and raised in Mantorville, Minnesota. He was an American modernist painter, etcher, illustrator, lithographer, muralist, printmaker and art teacher. Life His modernist paintings are a ...

(1896–1968), born and raised in Mantorville, Minnesota * Stuart Blanch, Baron Blanch (1918–1994), Anglican bishop and archbishop * Damien Blanch (born 1983), Australian-born Ireland international rugby league footballer * Gertrude Blanch (1897–1996), American mathematician * Joan Blanch (1937–2014), Spanish politician * Johan Blanch, Occitan troubadour * John Blanch (c. 1649–1725), British MP *

Lesley Blanch Lesley Blanch (6 June 19047 May 2007) was a British writer and traveller. She is best known for '' The Wilder Shores of Love'', about Isabel Burton (who married the Arabist and explorer Richard), Jane Digby el-Mezrab (Lady Ellenborough, the so ...

(1904–2007), British journalist, historian and travel writer *

Lucile Blanch Lucile Esma Lundquist Blanch (December 31, 1895 – October 31, 1981) was an American artist, and art educator. She was noted for the murals she created for the U.S. Treasury Department's Section of Fine Arts during the Great Depression. She wa ...

(1895–1981), American artist and Guggenheim Fellow *

Michael Blanch Michael Dennis Blanch TD (born c. 1946) is a British local government officer who served as Chief Executive of the Falkland Islands from January 2000 to March 2003, and again as interim Chief Executive from 12 September 2007 to 3 January 2008. ...

(born 1947), British diplomat *

Ulises Blanch Ulises Blanch (born March 25, 1998) is an American professional tennis player. He has a career high singles ranking of No. 236 achieved on October 12, 2020, and a doubles ranking of No. 423 achieved on May 20, 2019. Career Juniors As a junior, B ...

(born 1998), American tennis player * Blanch Yurka (1887–1974), American actress and director

Blanching

Blanching (cooking) Blanching is a process in which a food, usually a vegetable or fruit, is partially cooked by first scalding in boiling water, then removing after a brief timed interval, and finally plunging into iced water or placing under cold running water (k ...

, cooking briefly in boiling water *

Blanching (coinage) Blanching is the whitening of metal, by various means, such as soaking in acid or by coating with tin. This term is commonly used in coinage, in which pieces are given a lustre and brilliance before images are struck into the surface. The ancient ...

, a method used to whiten metal *

Blanching (horticulture) Blanching is a technique used in vegetable growing. Young shoots of a plant are covered to exclude light to prevent photosynthesis and the production of chlorophyll, and thus remain pale in color. Different methods used include covering with soil ...

, growing vegetables in dark conditions to produce pale shoots or leaves

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Blanch (medical) When skin is blanched, it takes on a whitish appearance as blood flow to the region is prevented. This occurs during and is the basis of the physiologic test known as diascopy. Blanching of the fingers is also one of the most clinically evident ...

, a temporary whitening of the skin due to transient ischemia *

Blanch fee Blanch fee, or blanch holding (from French ''blanc'', white), an ancient tenure in Scots land law, the duty payable being in silver or "white" money in contradistinction to gold. The phrase was afterwards applied to any holding of which the quit ...

, an ancient tenure in Scots land law *

Blanch, North Carolina Blanch (formerly, Blanche) is an unincorporated community in Dan River Township, Caswell County, North Carolina, between North Carolina Highway 86, and North Carolina Highway 62 North Carolina Highway 62 (NC 62) is a primary state highw ...

, an unincorporated community

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