April 8th, 2014
Wareham, Massachusetts, an old oyster town on Buzzards Bay with excellent oyster lineage, will be offering its first-ever oyster festival April 21-27, with the main event taking place April 27. Special restaurant menus, oyster dinners, a 5K run, and more. Sounds like a fun spring day on the water!
March 21st, 2014
For those who’ve been wondering why I’ve been referring to the Southeast as the slumbering giant of the oyster world, meet Dan Lewis: Dan is chef and proprietor of Coastal Provisions, a market and oyster bar on North Carolina’s breezy Outer Banks. Dan is a superb chef, and Coastal provisions would be an essential […]
March 7th, 2014
Join me and Dan Lewis of Coastal Provisions for a six-course oyster dinner extravaganza as part of the Outer Banks Taste of the Beach festival on Friday, March 14. 6:30-9:00 pm. In addition to sampling the Southeast’s best bivalves, we’ll try Olympias and Shigokus from the Pacific Northwest, and who knows what else? All while […]
March 7th, 2014
When was the last time you saw an oyster like this: For me it’s been a few years. It’s the size of my friggin’ hand. Deep, deep cup, incredibly strong shell (but easy to shuck). You see oysters this nice only when you get slow growers that are bottom-planted in a spot they like. And […]
February 24th, 2014
The Lowcountry of the South Carolina coast is great oyster territory, but there’s more to that dynamic, marshy plain than oysters, it turns out: “The snakiest part of the country!”
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