Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/12/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 12/12/06 1:37 PM, "Henning Wulff" <henningw@archiphoto.com> typed: > At 7:48 PM -0500 12/11/06, Tina Manley wrote: >> At 06:25 PM 12/11/2006, you wrote: >>> I'll eat oysters whatever way, but preferably raw; none of that red >>> or other colour sauce, just a bit of lemon juice and preferably >>> large (west >coast) beach oysters of a size that 3 are a full meal. >>> About 150gm each shucked. >> >> You haven't seen big oysters until you've seen Apalachicola oysters. >> Those are the biggest, juiciest, best oysters I've ever had - as big >> as the palm of your hand. Believe it or not, I've eaten raw oysters >> at every one of the top ten oyster bars in the USA. >> http://www.apalachicolariverinn.com/top10.html > > I'd like to try them sometime. > > The biggest I've had were from an oyster farm in the Broken Island > group on the West Coast of Vancouver Island. Nobody had been tending > it for a while and I had a chance to gather some. The shells were > around 10-12 inches long, and the oysters weighed were about a half > kilo each. This is wonderfully clear water at the edge of a National > Park, and they tasted great. 'O Oysters, come and walk with us! The Walrus did beseech. 'A pleasant walk, a pleasant talk, Along the briny beach: We cannot do with more than four, To give a hand to each.' The eldest Oyster looked at him, But never a word he said: The eldest Oyster winked his eye, And shook his heavy head -- Meaning to say he did not choose To leave the oyster-bed. Mark Rabiner New York, NY 40?47'59.79"N 73?57'32.37"W http://rabinergroup.com/