{"id":403876,"date":"2010-03-08T14:01:31","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T19:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/?p=2732"},"modified":"2010-03-08T14:01:31","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T19:01:31","slug":"pacific-oysters-%e2%80%94-the-chihuaha-and-the-great-dane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/403876","title":{"rendered":"Pacific Oysters \u2014 the Chihuaha and the Great Dane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2733\" title=\"photo-8\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/files\/2010\/03\/13-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"photo-8\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/>Last week, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.inlandseafood.com\">Inland Seafood<\/a><\/strong>&#8217;s general manager of plant operations, Rich Luff, took me on a tour of the distributor&#8217;s Tucker headquarters. Three things particularly fascinated me:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The building, a former Mary Kay Cosmetics distribution center, has hallways laid out in the form of the letters &#8220;MK.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Fish cutters insert sides of salmon into a machine that spits out perfect 6 ounces portions. If the fillets are very large then the long, skinny slices that emerge are called &#8220;hot dog cuts&#8221; in the trade.<\/li>\n<li>These two oysters, which are really the same critter. Both are Pacific oysters (<em>Crassostrea gigas<\/em>) &#8212; a species native to the Pacific coast of Asia but now cultivated all up and down the North American Pacific coast. Left to their own devices, these pups can grow to a foot or longer. Indeed, Chinese chefs are quite fond of the 6&#8243;-8&#8243; specimens (right), which can be steamed and then topped with black bean or ginger\/scallion sauce.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>So what do we have on the left? This little guy is a &#0133;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, Inland Seafood&#8217;s general manager of plant operations, Rich Luff, took me on a tour of the distributor&#8217;s Tucker headquarters. Three things particularly fascinated me: The building, a former Mary Kay Cosmetics distribution center, has hallways laid out in the form of the letters &#8220;MK.&#8221; Fish cutters insert sides of salmon into a machine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4063,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-403876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4063"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}