Scallops

How does a seahorse travel? 🌊🐎 It scallops!

Ok, now that we've gotten out to a solidly eye-rolling start, let's glance for a moment longer at the humble scallop, 🐚 which actually has an intriguing history.

One old story goes that during an oceanside wedding, the bride was on horseback and the horse got spooked by a passing ship and bolted into the ocean with the bride still in the saddle.🐴🧜🏼‍♀️ Eventually, the bride and horse emerged from the water covered in scallop shells.🐚

This old tale seems to relate directly to the ancient story of the goddess 💋 Aphrodite, who was born from the sea foam (yep, that’s a pretty explicit sexual reference) and who emerged at the shores of Cyprus on a scallop’s shell. You may also think of her Roman counterpart Venus, and of Sandro Botticelli's Birth of Venus, painted in the 1480s. 🎨🌊

Do you like to eat scallops? How will you cook them next? 🍽
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Photo taken last week in Solvang, CA at @alisalguestranch. ☀️