Salt Ponds
Jun 12, 2008
Another heavyweight from Point Judith Pond, Rhode Island (home of Moonstones), Salt Ponds are oyster-lover’s oysters: big, bountiful, and intensely flavorful. If you made a demi-glace with seawater, you’d approximate the concentrated tidepool brine of a Salt Ponds. They are unusually metallic for a virginica, with hints of the iron and petrol flavors found in other Point Judith Pond oysters. These 2.5-year-old oysters are very large, heavy, and strong. The shells—bronze and black-striped on top, a lovely white-green on the bottom—shuck smoothly every time, yielding a rich meat that will take you back to childhood days of lazing around the New England shore.
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