scallop
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We’ll order a dozen oysters, a scallop tostada and a little steak frites if we’re feeling cheeky.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
BBC Scotland's Disclosure's programme, Slavery At Sea, identified 35 men who worked on the fleet of scallop trawlers and went on to be recognised by the UK Home Office as victims of modern slavery.
From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026
Meanwhile, the scallop and soup examples I mentioned above came, respectively, from Ed Yong’s “An Immense World,” about animal perception, and Sam Kean’s “The Disappearing Spoon”—of which I have completed 87% so far.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
Chef-owners Carles Ramón and Manu Nuñez reworked the classic Galician dish vieira a la gallega, which usually tosses scallop, jamón, and breadcrumbs into a shell and bakes it all into submission.
From Salon ● Dec. 6, 2025
This was Lin Nai-Nai’s own design: a picture of a mountain, a thin black line climbing up to a scallop of clouds.
From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz
They have seen spider crabs taking a stroll, starfish, king scallops and goby fish.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
With G&T, dinners showcase Dorset’s homegrown ingredients at their best: delicate hand-dived scallops from Lyme Bay, organic salads scattered with edible flowers, puddings as light as cherry blossoms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 11, 2026
Hutchings uses scallops, large shrimp and fish fillets, but other options like oysters, lobster tails, crabs, mussels and clams are perfectly acceptable.
From Salon ● Apr. 6, 2026
The lineup is spectacular: scallops, mussels, snow crab leg meat and claws, cod, lobster tails and claws — all pristine, fresh, and ready to be devoured.
From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2025
Still there were scallops that the gulls could reach, and taking them in their beaks they would fly far above the reef and let them drop.
From "Island of the Blue Dolphins" by Scott O'Dell
Smaller hammerhead species such as the scalloped bonnethead, scoophead, and Pacific bonnethead have been devastated by overfishing, leaving so few that researchers struggle to find or study them.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 8, 2025
To mimic the shape of classic Cheeze-It’s, Markle uses a simple scalloped pastry cutter — available at Williams Sonoma for $20 — to cut the cracker dough into even 1 1/4-inch squares.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2025
From an office perched on the scalloped edge of the continent, Victoria Bradley jokes that she has the most beautiful doctor's practice in Australia.
From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2025
“The sun had gotten near to the tops of the far mountains and the light scalloped their broken edges, spilling toward us a flood of burning silver,” Mr. Chappell writes.
From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2024
She makes us cucumber sandwiches, the edges scalloped to look like flowers, filled with thin slices of salami.
From "Lucky Broken Girl" by Ruth Behar
For the adventurous and industrious, from October to March, the town sells $50-a-week shellfish permits for recreational scalloping.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026
When my kids were younger, I always took them scalloping.
From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2021
In New Bedford, Massachusetts, where the William Lee docks, scalloping season begins in April.
From National Geographic ● Feb. 8, 2021
Its mission, he said, would be to teach fishing basics for all manner of fisheries, from groundfishing to scalloping, lobstering and beyond.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 17, 2019
Each had knotted, carefully combed tassels, fleur-de-lis borders, ornate medallion designs, and minute scalloping amid a motif of connected eight-spoked wheels, all in rust and fire orange.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
