March 15th, 2017
Hey oysterheads, have you had an overpowering sense of vorf lately? If so, tell us about it. If you’re not familiar with the French word “vorf,” here’s an explanation from Clickhole: 1. Vorf (noun, French): The inescapable feeling that somewhere at the bottom of the ocean there is an oyster that knows your address. Example […]
February 21st, 2017
A longtime Oysterguide reader and Oysterater participant is headed to Vancouver this weekend for an oyster odyssey and wants to know where he should go. I haven’t been in years. Any suggestions?
January 29th, 2017
Here’s a great free opportunity for Southeast shellfish businesses–start-up or established–to learn how to pitch their ventures and to meet potential investors: Applications for South Atlantic and Gulf Coast Shellfish Workshop due Feb. 13, 2017. This FREE workshop is open to start-ups and established businesses in the Southeast region of the US involved […]
January 6th, 2017
Here are some more entries for my burgeoning “Oyster Art” category: Amazingly detailed and lifelike paintings of a number of different oyster shells, each true to the variety, by Ithaca artist Carol Ast.
December 18th, 2016
Being the only oyster native to Europe, European Flats (aka “Belons”) have figured in more great art than all the other species combined. Uberslurper Arthur Goldman recently sent me these two classic celebrations of appetite, Jan Steen’s 1658 Girl Eating Oysters and Max Beckmann’s 1943 The Oyster Eaters (that’s his wife getting all aphrodisiacky in […]
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