Oyster Blog
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Oysters are stocking up on good karma. Recently Louisiana researchers discovered that a fatty substance found in oysters may cure cancer. (Eat up, folks!) The sneaky bivalves have also been transmitting messages from on high... or at least answering the...
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...include the Lion's Mane Jellyfish. We found a dead one washed up on the beach a couple of nights ago. The Lion's Mane lives in the cold waters of the northern oceans. In the Arctic it can grow to...
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The ratfish is a ridiculous creature. It has the body of a shark, the tail of a rat, the eyes of a lemur, and the face of a rabbit. We found a sorry looking specimen out on the tideflats a...
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In the winter, the tide is low at night. This means that the oyster pickers and clam diggers work through the night, in every kind of weather except lightning storms. Last night we caught up with Dan and Dave...
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Attention Seattle oyster lovers! Head down to the Flying Fish restaurant tomorrow Oct. 25 for the Oyster Frenzy, and if that still isn't enough, stop by Elliot's Oyster New Year on November 1st.
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We've been celebrating fall by giving away deliciously tart and pesticide-free locally-grown apples.
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Last week we traveled to Monterey, California to serve oysters at the Monterey Food and Wine Festival. It was a smashing success. So successful, in fact, that we didn't really have time to take photos because we were too busy...
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If you find yourself near Monterey, California tomorrow evening stop by the Aquarium for the 32nd annual Monterey Food and Wine Festival. We'll be there serving freshly shucked extra small Hama Hama oysters. We're pulling them out of the salt...
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The Hama Hama bridges were built in the 20s, and they're beautiful and artistic and much preferable to the bland concrete spans the State will eventually replace them with. The problem is that they were built for 1930s-era cars, and...
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Phil Lewis Day, a local guy who works wonders with wood, stopped by to show us some of his creations. The basket below is made out of many pieces of firewood glued together and then polished smooth in a lathe......
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The first is a profile of Jerry Yamashita, who grows oysters in Puget Sound near Olympia, Washington. Jerry offers a pretty good description of the technical (not political) difficulties involved with farming shellfish downstream from residential development. The second is...
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This year the Pacific Coast Shellfish Growers Association's annual conference is in Lake Chelan, an area of Eastern Washington which purportedly looks something like this: But, from what we can tell, really looks more like this: (apologies for the cell...