Pages tagged Spat
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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.
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Arcachon Bay
The bay west of Bordeaux where growers learned to catch wild spat on tiles: colored huts, seven ports in Gujan-Mestras and tastings on Cap Ferret.
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Arcachon
The lagoon near Bordeaux where French oyster farming was organized in the 1850s, and whose spat now stocks farms across France and beyond.