John Westfield

I'm a lifelong cooking enthusiast with a special love for strange and underused ingredients. I hope this blog helps open your mind to more of the wonderful edible treasures around us.

Where do salmon breed?

Pacific salmon, of which there are several kinds, spawn in the streams of southern Alaska, British Columbia and the states of Washington and Oregon on the Pacific coast. There is also one kind which breeds in the streams of Russia’s east coast. The females spawn their thousands of eggs and the males fertilize them. How …

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What do salmon symbolize?

Salmon is is a symbol of blessings and nourishment, as well as a drive of determination that will not surrender or give up, these are both beautiful and long enduring symbols that the Salmon has come to teach. What does the salmon symbolize in the Leo zodiac? The symbolism of the salmon represents sheer determination …

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How do salmon navigate?

Researchers confirmed the existence of magnetite crystals in Chinook salmon The crystals allow the salmon to sense magnetic pulses from the Earth They use these pulses as a biological GPS signal to keep track of where they are. How do salmon navigate their way home? For all these reasons, we can see why salmon navigate …

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