Pages tagged Flat Oyster
Why Some Oysters Taste Metallic
Metallic is rarely a freshness problem. The chemistry behind the note, the oysters that carry it, and how to tell a natural finish from a bad oyster.
Bringing Back the Flat Oyster
Europe's native oyster reefs once covered millions of hectares. A continent-wide effort is now rebuilding them, one disease-screened oyster at a time.
Galway in September
The world's oyster-opening championship, an Oyster Trail through the city, and the native flat oysters of Galway Bay at the start of their season.
Bluff, New Zealand
A wild flat oyster from the cold strait between the South Island and Stewart Island, a short legal season, and an unpretentious festival every May.
Bluff
A wild flat oyster dredged from the cold strait below New Zealand's South Island, in season only from March to August, and nearly lost to disease twice.
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.
Zeeland Flat
The Netherlands' native oyster, grown for six years by about ten farmers, and outnumbered a hundred to one by the Pacific oysters sold as 'Zeeland oysters'.
Ostrea denselamellosa
Korea's native flat oyster, the beotgul: a brooding, live-bearing species of the southern mudflats whose wild stocks have sharply declined.
Loch Ryan Native
Wild flat oysters from a Scottish loch granted to one family in 1701, dredged by two fishermen who return the small ones to rebuild the beds.
Angasi
Southern Australia's native flat oyster, stripped from its reefs in the 1800s and now grown by a handful of Tasmanian farms for a short winter season.
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.
Limfjord
Wild Danish flat oysters from a fjord a storm opened to the North Sea in 1825, fished by about 101 small dredgers under strict gear rules.
Whitstable Native
Kent's flat oyster: a 1793 fishermen's company, 80 million oysters a year to London at its peak, near-collapse in the twentieth century, and a PGI since 1997.
Galway Native
Galway Bay's flat oyster, eaten when there's an R in the month and celebrated each September by a festival that began with 34 guests in 1954.
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.