Oysters in particular are going to pop up, and asparagus and a couple of others.
Oysters , clams, any pure protein.
oysters , the four species of sea turtles, the sharks.
oysters as you can stomach.
Oysters .
So oysters grew from slimy mud, cockles grew from sandy mud, limpets grew from rocks, and so on.
But oysters are this quintessential New England food.
shucking oysters at three o'clock in the morning and the national child labor committee hired a documentary
have oysters and chicken chicken very famous and I try new places that my
They're called spiny oysters .
Do you like oysters ?
We served oysters today from my friend Roy.
But it was-- oysters and eggs were very expensive, so you felt like you were showing off if you could offer someone a dish like that.
We add oysters for depth and brininess and to take off the, take the edge off of the tarragon.
local New York Harbor oysters of your average New Yorker ate 6 to 700 New York
just for the oysters , but very nice, right on the beach.
Asked them how much they liked the oysters , how salty they tasted.
And so we wanted to serve oysters for you guys to bribe you into coming.
And you guys both serve oysters at your restaurant, and so that's where we're gonna start.
And they were very special oysters that were delicious and widely sought after, which is why they basically went away, one of the reasons.
And the question is can oysters improve it?
So yeah, I eat oysters a lot.
And I'd thought that there'd been all these native oysters in San Francisco Bay, but actually they were imported from Washington, and New York,
So there aren't any stories of Native Americans harvesting oysters , per se-- other things.
And so you might have one person say that oysters are an aphrodisiac for one reason, and another medical writer publishing the same year
But yeah, eating oysters , and eating everything growing up at Chez Panisse-- there was usually a bottle of rose close at hand.
And he wasn't mad that we were getting the oysters .
But growing up-- wintertime especially-- my dad kept a bucket of oysters , a bucket of clams.
It's the only place that I love eating oysters for breakfast.
Now there are lovely beaches and rocky reefs because the pearl oysters have all been removed and were removed by about 1750 or so.
In fact, before the oysters were removed, it was not a beach at all.
I mean there's so many things that-- the oysters .
There were like 50 years of New York where people ate oysters , like a pound of oysters per day per person.
So I love oysters , and yes, I actually like them just raw.
Was there actually case in this story where Native Americans were farming oysters ?
You can see up there, the list of oysters that they have raw is just astonishing.
Still, I was always disgusted by the oysters .
If the farmed fish eats algae, like oysters , clams, mussels do, that's basically an unalloyed good thing.
Because if you're finding oysters in a polluted ocean, they don't taste good or they die.
I talked about farmed mussels, oysters , clams.
walk in there and just rent a bucket and get a bunch of oysters there, and they will give
walk in there and just rent a bucket and get a bunch of oysters there, and they will give you the--they will give you the knife and everything that you need to open them up and
And found that when we play the sounds of the sea, people say the oysters taste better, but no more salty with seaside sounds with sea gulls swarming over head than
I grew up in Louisiana, so the first dish I ever remember was oysters Rockefeller from Antoine's in New Orleans.
So I just wanted to get together with these guys and talk about seafood, oysters , cooking, New England.
Your godmother is Alice Waters-- probably grew up sitting on the bar at Chez Panisse eating oysters .
No, we were talking about whether you like to cook oysters , or whether you like to just eat them raw, or different preparations.
touristy at all it's not like a North Beach Italian place um it's just got amazing oysters and really cool history
And I'm really, really excited to hear her talk about some of the history of Drake's Bay Oyster Farm, and some of Point Reyes's history, and the history of oysters
No, actually, as I found researching the book, there were not native populations of oysters in the Bay Area, at least as recently as