abalone

Sardines, tuna and abalone have all at some point been abundant along the California Current, a 1,900-mile stretch of the Pacific that has been ripe for explorers and fishers for centuries.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 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

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

Twenty or thirty buildings were made of abalone, white but gleaming with rainbow colors.

From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan

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

“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

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

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

I took down the shells I had put up to scare the gulls and tossed them and the abalones over the cliff.

From "Island of the Blue Dolphins" by Scott O'Dell