Word: shellfishing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...consists of essays on 15 categories of food-such as lemons, chocolate, garlic, potatoes, shellfish, mushrooms, nuts, cheese-followed by recipes. The essays offer detailed information about the properties of each food and how it reacts to mixing and heating. The would-be cheese cook who achieves Silly Putty instead of a creamy liquid is told among other things to avoid several common varieties and to buy others, notably Cheddar, only when aged. The section on the mysterious ways of chocolate might have been written by a scientist. In fact, after finishing Field, the reader may feel more like...
Thermal pollution can be equally useful. Not only trout but oysters and other shellfish have been grown more rapidly in the hot effluent from power plants. Indeed, one New York producer, who raises his oysters in the Long Island Lighting Co.'s cooling ponds, says that they reach full size in less than three years (v. four to five years normally). Even more spectacular results have been reported by the Scots. By placing sole and plaice in water discharged from an atomic generator, they have raised the fish in six to eight months (v. three to four years...