abalone
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He notes there is hardly a commercial fishing industry in California anymore and that once-abundant marine life, such as abalone, has become a culinary privilege for the elite.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
“The shucked abalone is trimmed, butterflied, and thwacked lightly with a mallet.”
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
More adventurous eaters will zone in on the abalone served with a squash rosette or the guinea hen with potato millefeuille.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2025
I took my cormorant skirt and the abalone box in which I kept my necklace and earrings.
From "Island of the Blue Dolphins" by Scott O'Dell
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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