Word: scallop
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Oleana’s entrees are hearty, satisfying and excellent. Sortun is mindful of using as much organic meat and produce as possible, and does so with the help of local farms. An earthy sort of goodness is evident in dishes such as the seared scallop special ($23). Five fresh, tender and juicy scallops surround an herbalita red wine reduction of bacon, celery, onion, carrot and gigante beans atop a mild turnip puree. The bland turnip does not add much to the scallops, which are quite tasty in their own right, and the bread pudding-esque herbalita is fatty...
...currier” in French describes people who used a curved knife with the sharp edge on the inside to scrape the hair off animal hides to prepare leather for tanning. At either ends of the blade were wooden handles; such knives are suggested by the scallop patterns in the horizontal black bar. The symbolism of the hide scraping is multi-layered, for it can also suggest that education is “a sort of scraping and tanning of the students to make them more supple and useful for life...
...With 5,000 customers for only 400 to 500 cases of each vintage, Colgin restricts the number of bottles each can purchase. Many folks get only one. Wine lovers are not averse to venting their frustration over this paucity. At a dinner party, Colgin was presented with a single scallop. Only partly joking, the host explained that this was her allocation...
...Gravel Pit songs were streamlined enough for radio play, but it seemed unlikely that they'd be signed to a huge record deal anytime soon. By the time the Gravel Pit had wrapped up, all the sushi was gone and the crowd had to be content with scallop dumplings, or whatever those were...