Taste of the Town: Sly cooking (May 2009)

Sly’s restaurant in downtown Carpinteria

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“Sly’s in Carpinteria (www.slysonline.com) serves California abalone as an appetizer or a main course at dinnertime. (The shellfish is aqua-farmed in Goleta so it doesn’t deplete the endangered wild abalone population.) Chef-owner James Sly dredges the pounded meat in a bit of flour and egg, then pan-fries it and tops it with a butter-chardonnay sauce. It’s a lovely introduction to a lesser-known mollusk.”

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Source: Angela Pettera, 805 Living