Culture
Casanova's Fifty
Casanova claimed to eat fifty oysters every morning. The science is contested. The mythology is three thousand years old and reveals something true about the oyster as a cultural object.
Culture
The City That Ran on Oysters
Before the skyscrapers and the subway — New York was an oyster city. The largest natural beds in the world ran beneath its harbor. For two hundred years, the oyster was the food that built New York.
Culture
The Vernissage and the Shell
From Delacroix's studio dinners to Art Basel Miami Beach — oysters have occupied a specific, recurring position in the social rituals of the art world. The connection is not arbitrary.
Environment & Sustainability
Scotland's Seabed Machine: The Oyster Wave Converter
A 200-tonne hinged flap bolted to the Orkney seabed generated electricity from waves for six years. The technology worked. Then the money ran out.