Pages tagged Diatom
Taste & Science
Inside the Claire
What two to four weeks in a shallow clay pond does to an oyster: less crowding, drifting salt, a different diet and a blue diatom that turns the gills green.
Taste & Science
What the Oyster Ate
The cucumber note in a Hood Canal Pacific is a real molecule, made when the oyster breaks down fatty acids from the diatoms it ate. How diet becomes aroma on the half shell.