July 7th, 2009
This week a friend drove down a box of Johnny Flynn’s Colville Bay oysters from Prince Edward Island. I hadn’t had them in a while, and it reminded me of what I knew and had forgotten: They are, quite simply, the best oysters in the world. I mean, this was the Fourth of July, when […]
July 1st, 2009
If you live on the Eastern Seaboard you know it was a demoralizing June. Rain, fog, and temperatures more appropriate to the R months. But there is a silver lining in all those clouds, and it is that we’re getting an extra month of quality oysters this year. Normally a young oyster’s thoughts turn to […]
May 17th, 2009
It looked so right. I was on my way to a book event in Orlando (that’s already an oxymoron, and so was I for not knowing better) and suddenly an oyster bar loomed ahead. And not just any oyster bar, but a super-cool, industrial-tech, shiny black and silver oyster bar. It was called City Fish, […]
May 17th, 2009
My apologies to certain larger and better-known oyster festivals (names withheld; you know who you are), because I must hereby proclaim that you just got SCHOOLED in the art of the oyster festival by Boston’s B&G Oysters, which put on one hell of a show on May 4 to celebrate the 5th anniversary of the […]
March 2nd, 2009
I’m proud to announce the birth of a brand-new oyster. Shigoku, the latest development from Taylor Shellfish, is the most encouraging thing to happen in 2009 thus far. It’s a Willapa Bay oyster, made extra-special through Taylor’s genius. They grow the oysters in floating bags, like many a Pacific oyster, but these are attached to […]
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