abalone
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“The shucked abalone is trimmed, butterflied, and thwacked lightly with a mallet.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Visiting one celebrated restaurant in San Francisco, he describes the preparation of commercially farmed abalone steaks as someone who knows his way around a commercial kitchen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Kim Namin, 29, runs a seasoned gim processing factory with a 30-year family history in Wando, an island in South Korea's southern waters known for abalone and seaweed production.
From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2026
On special is an abalone soup, an alien beast in his time, and not our cup of tea, but they say Hemingway took a shine.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2025
In 1947, no one was yet drying abalone commercially.
From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston
He recalled dishes considered delicacies such as donkey meat and abalones - a type of mollusc - being flown in from Pyongyang.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2023
The traditional dish known as “poon choi,” or “basin food,” is a large dish filled with lotus root, radish, taro and more expensive delicacies such as prawns, abalones and meat layered on top.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 30, 2022
“Chinese people like to eat these expensive foods like sea cucumbers and abalones at our Lunar New Year family gatherings because we have worked very hard over the past year,” Fong said.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 30, 2022
For centuries, fishermen have carved their homes into the bluffs, like bird’s nests, plucking abalones and sailing out for bamboo crabs.
From New York Times ● Jan. 5, 2016
The sea water kept the abalones fresh, but when we had to go out again the night was too dark to find our way to the reef.
From "Island of the Blue Dolphins" by Scott O'Dell
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