Wondrous Words Wednesday

Wondrous Words Wednesday is a weekly meme where you can share new words that you’ve encountered or spotlight words you love.  Feel free to get creative!   If you want to play along, grab the button, write a post and come back and add your link to Mr. Linky!

My first word is from THE SWEET LIFE IN PARIS by David Lebowitz.

1. spatchcock – “My Sunday mornings wouldn’t be complete without picking up a poulet crapaudine, a spatchcocked salt-and-herb crusted chicken, roasted to a caramel-brown crisp by Catherine, the wacky chicken lady who loves to yelp over the other shoppers clustered around her fired-up rotisserie: ‘Daveed — howareyouIamfine!’ in one nonstop greeting.”

Spatchcocking, sometimes called butterflying, is a method of preparing chicken for cooking. It involves removing the backbone so that the bird can be opened out flat.

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My second word is from HIDDEN AMERICA by Jeanne Marie Laskas

2. mycorrhiza – “The plants thrive here because they have no real competition, and because of mycorrhiza, the symbiotic relationship between the blueberry plants and a fungus that regularly clings to their roots.”

Science wasn’t my best subject so if I learned this in school, I’ve forgotten it.  Just like the sentence says, mycorrhiza is a fungus which grows in association with the roots of a plant in a symbiotic or mildly pathogenic relationship.  They allow plants to draw more nutrients and water from the soil.

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What words do you want to celebrate today?