Oyster Blog
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The Nature Conservancy has just released the first ever report on the state of the world's oyster populations. The prognosis is bad: 85% of the global oyster habitat has been destroyed by development, pollution, and destructive fishing practices. Read the...
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Trifecta! A Pacific oyster, a blood oyster (see earlier post), and a kumamoto. Like the Pacific, the kumamoto oyster (Crassostrea sikamea) originally hails from Japan. Some people think the kumo is a variety of Pacific (Crassostrea gigas) that evolved in...
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The sad thing is that these both came out of the same oyster. IMHO: The pearl on the left is the most terrible, because it looks like a dental horror story.
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We found this pearl yesterday while parboiling some medium shucked oysters.
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How's this for food photography: For the past couple of months Adam has been collecting saltwater and giving the samples to Pete Becker of Little Skookum Shellfish. Pete examines the water under a microscope and looks for shellfish food. Now,...
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First, you need to know a little bit about oyster anatomy. Oysters have a top, flat side and a bottom, cupped side. An oyster has a narrow, hinged end and a wide, fluted end. In the photo below, the knife...
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Oysters go through a larval stage, swimming around in the water for about 2 weeks, and then they settle down, develop shells, and remain stationary for the rest of their lives. Oyster larvae can set on just about anything: wood,...
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Giant white piles adjacent to the shucking plant aren't anything new... although normally they're made of oyster shell, not snow. The winter storm of 2008 is turning out to be the most persisent in living memory, which is why we've...
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...with this guy: (Not sure whether that blurry appendage on the left belongs to Adam, or if Miguel is standing right behind him....) Views from the Captain's House: The barge goes out at high tide and picks up full tubs...
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This oyster was so impressive Teresa had to save it for show-and-tell. What makes this oyster particularly amazing is that it was shucked in August, when our oysters are normally at their smallest. Not impressed? Need a sense of scale?...
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Olympia oysters are the only oyster species native to the west coast of North America. They're small and intense, with a surprisingly coppery flavor. Olympias were an important food source for Native Americans, and a big hit with everybody who...