Pages tagged Brittany
Quiberon
The Breton bay where flat oysters are still caught as spat and grown in deep water. France now produces about 2,000 tonnes of flats against 80,000 of cupped oysters.
Cancale
The Breton port on the Bay of Mont-Saint-Michel, where oysters grow under some of the world's biggest tides and are sold at the harbor market.
Morlaix
A north Finistère bay that farmed flat oysters until the 1970s epidemics, then switched to Pacifics in bags. Carantec is its oyster town.
Paimpol
A Breton bay whose oyster farming was reshaped by growers from Morbihan, Charente and Vendée in the 1950s, and by the loss of its flats in the 1970s.
Prat-Ar-Coum
A five-generation family farm in the Abers of north Finistère, growing cupped and flat oysters from birth to market in about three years.
Pied de Cheval
Cancale's giant flat oysters, too big for the top grade and named for their hoof-like shape. A rarity to share, not a dozen to slurp.
Tsarskaya
A spéciale from Parcs Saint-Kerber in Cancale, created in 2004, grown three to four years and sold with a filling index above 10.5%.
Belon
The flat oyster that made a small Breton river famous: raised elsewhere in Brittany, then finished in the Bélon estuary for its hazelnut taste.