December 2nd, 2010
Tide tumbling is one of the nicest things to happen to oysters in years. The first tumbled oyster on the market was the Kusshi—immediately recognizable for its smooth, polished, cornucopia-shaped shells. That’s the result of them being run through a barrel tumbler every so often, which breaks up the growing lip of their shell and […]
October 14th, 2008
From out of nowhere, a new oyster festival leaps into the elite ranks of oyster events. The Maine Oyster Festival, which went down on October 12 at the handsome Union Bluff Meeting House, just feet from the sea in York Beach, was everything an oyster fest should be. What this means is that the raw […]
July 31st, 2008
In the early 1990s, a Canadian marine scientist named Brian Kingzett was engaged in an ecologist’s dream job. The province of British Columbia wanted to know how much of its Swiss-cheese coastline had the potential for shellfish aquaculture, and it hired Kingzett to find out. Kingzett was following a long line of explorers, including James […]
June 12th, 2008
Everybody talks about fall being the season for oysters, and it is, but recent tastings have convinced me that the narrow window for spring oysters—think May, plus a week on either end—provides some of the tastiest of the year. Fall oysters are filled with glycogen, but spring oysters have an altogether brighter flavor, heavy on […]
June 9th, 2008
What’s that, you didn’t know that on Sunday, June 8, at Lincoln Center, “A Geography of Oysters” scored a James Beard Award as one of the best food books of the year? I’d like to think that JB himself, a prodigious oyster eater, would have approved. If you’ve been holding out, waiting to see if […]
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