October 31st, 2011
Abigail Carroll has a lovely oyster coming from a very different part of Maine. A lot of Maine oysters hail from the rightly famous Damariscotta River, well north of Portland, but Abigail’s Nonesuch oysters (named for nearby Nonesuch Point) grow in the Scarborough River south of Portland, in the midst of a nature conservancy. View […]
October 31st, 2011
My favorite oyster presentation is on a bed of freshly fallen snow. The cups of the oysters nestle into the white fluff and stay upright (and cold). In Vermont, sadly, we can actually pull that off about 11 months per year. For the other month, however, I have a brand new way of serving my […]
October 31st, 2011
Something about oysters–and the challenge of opening them–catalyzes the creative juices in people. You’d think that several thousand years of oyster appreciation would have been long enough for everyone to settle on one best way to do the job, but quite the opposite has happened. There are as many ways to open an oyster and […]
October 21st, 2011
Belons are the rarest oysters in North America. More rightfully known as European Flats (Belon refers to a river in France that grows the finest), or Ostrea edulis, Belons are the native oyster of Europe and the big cousins of the Pacific Northwest’s Olympia, but they are an entirely different genus from the rest of […]
October 18th, 2011
Island Creek Oyster Bar has been open a year now. Before it opened, the owners declared that their goal was to capture the essence of the Island Creek Oyster company and recreate it in the city of Boston. I thought that seemed unlikely. How do you transfer the beachy good vibes of Duxbury to Kenmore […]
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