"Scallops are expensive, so they should be treated with some class. But then, I suppose that every creature that gives his life for our table should be treated with class."
Jeff Smith (The Frugal Gourmet)
TODAY IN FOOD HISTORY
~ National Baked Scallops Day
1841 Orlando Jones of Middlesex, England received a U.S. patent for a process to make starch from rice or corn.
1894 Coca Cola was first bottled by Joseph A. Biedenham of Vicksburg, Mississippi. Before that it was only mixed to order at the soda fountain.
1912 Juliette 'Daisy' Gordon Low founded the Girl Scouts of the USA in Savannah, Georgia.
1929 Asa Griggs Candler died. In 1887, Asa Candler, a wholesale druggist, purchased the formula for Coca-Cola from John S. Pemberton, an Atlanta pharmacist, for $2,300. He sold the company in 1919 for $25 million
1930 Mahatma Gandhi began his march to the coastal village of Dandi, to protest the British salt monopoly.
1993 Christian Kent Nelson died. He was the inventor of the Eskimo Pie in 1919 in Iowa.
DID YOU KNOW?
SCALLOPS TRIVIA & FACTS
Bay scallops have 18 pairs of eyes set in their mantle along the margin of the shell.
Bay scallops have a short life span of 1 to 2 years or so.
Unlike other mollusks that are tied to specific locations by burrowing or attachment, adult bay scallops are extremely mobile. They swim for short distances by jetting water through their valves.
The world catch of scallops is about 1 million tons.
Saint James was the brother of John, and one of the 12 Apostles. The scallop shell was the symbol of the crusaders of the Order of Saint James. (Santiago in Spanish and St. Jacques in French). Supposedly his intervention saved the life of a drowning knight. The knight emerged from the sea covered with scallops shells. Scallops were named ‘Coquilles St. Jacques’ in St. James honor, as was the dish.
Coquilles St. Jacques means 'shells of St. James'.
(St. James de Campostella is supposedly buried in the Spanish city Santiago, in Galicia, but there is controversy as to whether he actually preached in Spain or not).
PHOTOS
Sea scallop and its eyes
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