The Oyster Guide

July 21st, 2017

Good intro to oysters from Boston’s top oyster chefs. All the advice is spot-on.

June 27th, 2017

Julie Qiu just published an excellent piece on the wet-storage controversy on her In a Half Shell blog. For those who don’t know, wet-storage is the practice of storing oysters in tanks of circulating water post-harvest. Why would you do such a thing? Because it keeps them super-fresh right up until the last moment. Why […]

June 27th, 2017

The oyster party of the year went down in Red Hook on May 18 when the New York Harbor School’s Billion Oyster Project threw its annual fundraiser bash. In attendance were 50 oyster farms, 20 chefs, and uncountable good moments. The BOP has already restored 20 million oysters to New York Harbor and has raised […]

April 6th, 2017

Here’s a gorgeous new film about the Yamashita family, towering figures in the Pacific oyster industry. They helped bring the Japanese (aka Pacific) oyster to the Northwest after the Olympia faded. Check out the site for a list of screenings or to order the film on Blueray.

March 27th, 2017

Just back from a week in North Carolina, which is gunning for Virginia as the leader of East Coast oysters, and from what I’ve seen, might just make it. Exhibit A: Coastal Provisions, in Southern Shores, where Daniel Lewis has been pushing the oyster thing as hard as anybody in the country the past few […]