Essential Oyster 1 Flashcards
unheralded
not publicly acclaimed.
“the Kumamoto was an obscure and unheralded species from southern Jpan before war and California brought it to fame; now its conspicuously fruity essence makes it the most beloved oyster in America.”
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spawny
(of a fish, frog, mollusk, crustacean, etc.) release or deposit eggs and sperm.
“American farmers were thoroughly unimpressed with the slow-growing Kumamotos and eagerly reverted to Pacifics when the seed became available two years later, but by then the Kumie had established a beachead on the West Coast, in part because growers hoped it could replace spawny Pacifics in the summer. (Coming from warm southern Japan, the Kumie never spawned in the cold waters of the West Coast.)” (79)
MD - Middle English, from Anglo-French espandre to spread out, shed, scatter, spawn, from Latin expandere to expand
picture of oysters and they are litterally expanding by releasing thousands of eggs and sperms that will unite and create new oysters.
ridge
a : a range of hills or mountains
b : an elongate elevation on an ocean bottom
“Most of America’s East Coast benefits from the Gulf Stream, but the same submarine ridge that walls off Cape Cod Bay turns the Gulf of Maine into a semi-contained basin fed by arctic water from Labrador. The result is that water temperatures in Maine can be 10 degrees colder than southern New England, and sometimes in summer even colder than Prince Edward e
Gulf of Maine
The Gulf of Maine is a large gulf of the Atlantic Ocean on the east coast of North America. It is bounded by Cape Cod at the eastern tip of Massachusetts in the southwest and by Cape Sable Island at the southern tip of Nova Scotia in the northeast.
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gird
to prepare for conflict or for some difficult task
“Cold climates also produce sweeter oysters in the late fall as oysters gird themselves for the long months of hibernation by plumping up with sugary compounds that function as both energy reserves and natural antifreeze.
The longer the hibernation, the sweeter the oyster.” (195)
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troughs (left by glacier)
a long and narrow depression in the earth’s surface.
“As the glaciers advanced southward with the falling temperatures one hundred thousand years ago, they scoured Maine’s soft sand and sediment and pushed it deep into the Atlantic, carving long troughs in the bedrock that became river valleys when the glaciers then retreated ninety thousand years later.
