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Coquilles St. Jacques – the French term for scallops, and the Anglo-American term for the popular scallop dish with butter and garlic, owe their name to St. James the Great (died 44 AD), fisherman and first martyred apostle.
Pecten maximus, common names the great scallop, king scallop, St James shell or escallop, is a northeast Atlantic species of scallop, an edible saltwater clam, a marine bivalve mollusc in the family Pectinidae. This is the type species of the genus.
Nutrition: Georges Bank Scallops (Per Order) Calories: 460 Fat: 35 g (Saturated Fat: 19 g, Trans Fat: 1 g) Sodium: 950 mg Carbs: 10 g (Fiber: 1 g, Sugar: 3 g) Protein: 26 g. With more than 30 ...
The Cross of Saint James, the symbol of the Order of Santiago; the hilt is surmounted with a scallop. James' emblem was the scallop shell (or "cockle shell"), and pilgrims to his shrine often wore that symbol on their hats or clothes. The French term for a scallop is coquille St. Jacques, which means
La Coquille (French pronunciation: [la kɔkij]; Occitan: La Coquilha) is a commune in the Dordogne department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France.. La Coquille was on one of the five routes leading to Santiago de Compostela in Spain and it was in this parish that pilgrims were given a coquille Saint-Jacques, a scallop shell symbolic of the Way of St. James, the celebrated pilgrimage ...
Scallop (/ ˈ s k ɒ l ə p, ˈ s k æ l ə p /) [a] is a common name that encompasses various species of marine bivalve mollusks in the taxonomic family Pectinidae, the scallops.However, the common name "scallop" is also sometimes applied to species in other closely related families within the superfamily Pectinoidea, which also includes the thorny oysters.
Coquille Saint-Jacques—a sea scallop dish. [10] Cretons [11] —a type of boiled, ground pork pâté. Croquettes de poisson—fishcake. Doigt-à-l'Ail [12] —garlic finger; Fricot—a type of stew, consisting of potatoes, onions, and whatever meat was available, topped with dumplings.
Researchers from Washington University in St. Louis has found that dietary fructose may promote tumor growth in animal models of melanoma, breast cancer, and cervical cancer.