标题: Raising Snail [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 10-17-2012 11:14 标题: Raising Snail Jeff Gordinier, The Snail Wrangler; This woman knows what's in a tender snail. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/1 ... -in-california.html
(a snail farm in Central Valley, California; a photo caption: "Mary Stewart, a snail rancher, wants to branch out into selling snail eggs, which taste like a milder version of salmon roe")
Note:
(a) Ms Mary Stewart describes her experience of being hurt by a snail's "love dart": "It’s like a splinter. It hurts. I shoved one under my finger one time because I was cleaning the bin. Oh, that sucker was sore for weeks.”
(i) splinter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splinter
(ii) sucker (n):
"5c: —used as a generalized term of reference <see if you can get that sucker working again>" http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sucker
(c) The article, in the Dining section which appears every Thursday in NYT, states, "A signature dish at Tertulia, Seamus Mullen’s Asturian-cider-house-style restaurant in the West Village, is arroz a la plancha, a sort of griddle-crisped risotto in which Ms. Stewart’s snails emerge as earthy nubs of texture within a mound of rice, mushrooms and jamón Ibérico."
(i) cider house http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cider_house
(ii) Eater Sound Bites – Tertulia’s Seamus Mullen Makes Arroz a La Plancha. Tertulia, undated. http://tertulianyc.com/category/video/
(video #2)
(iii) The Spanish masculine noun "arroz" is rice.
(iv) The Spanish masculine noun "plancha" is "plate" or "grill."
"a la plancha" = grilled http://dictionary.reverso.net/spanish-english/plancha
(d) The article next says, "Ms. Stewart’s impart an herbal undercurrent and a 'funky nuttiness' without the ick factor of interior grit."
Sold as (empty) shells--or called cups. Can be round, square, or hexagonal.
(g) The article explains Ms Stewart "in 1989 began a career as a snail rancher."
Because she identifies herself as a rancher, her farm implicitly as a ranch (as opposed to my choice of word: farm), the title of the NYT article uses a fancier word to describe her: wrangler 牛仔.
(h) sentient (adj; Latin sentient-, sentiens, present participle of sentire to perceive, feel):
"responsive to or conscious of sense impressions <sentient beings>"