[Leica] Oysters

[lrzeitlin at aol.com (lrzeitlin at aol.com)]

Regardless about how some Luggers feel about cooked oysters there are 
some excellent choices found in New York area restaurants. Local cooks 
have had a lot of experience doing oysters and there are plenty of good 
recipes. Along with sturgeon they were the mainstay of the diet of 
immigrants to the city during the 1800s. Between 1890 and 1910 there 
were 350 square miles of oysters beds in the lower Hudson estuary. New 
york harbor was the home to half to the oysters in the world. If an 
oyster was served in a fine restaurant the chances are that it came 
 from New York. Unfortunately most of the oyster beds were destroyed by 
pollution and disease introduced by foreign oysters brought in to 
replenish the supply. Local oysters were killed off by European 
diseases just like local native Americans. Today local oysters 
generally come from the waters of Long Island Sound although there are 
efforts to build artificial reefs to encourage the New York area oyster 
beds.
Nothing to do with Leica at all.
Larry Z