Were all oysters taken from the ocean and not near the mouths of harbors or rivers that bear sewage, no one need ever hesitate to eat them raw. The trouble lies in the fact that, as Professor Kellogg puts it, "before food mollusca are marketed they are almost invariably placed ...
Enjoying some raw clams and oysters, ankle deep in rainwater at a roadside stand. Enjoying a beach, Vieques Island. You never know what you’ll find beach-combing. Washed up corals and hermit crabs. High tide, Black Sand Beach. The clientele at our favorite breakfast place in Esperanza on...
The shakshuka was terrible – the worst I have ever had. No wonder it came in a soup bowl with a spoon. It was basically watery tomato soup with almost raw peppers and a couple of eggs floating in it. It’s meant to be a rich smoky reduced tomato and pepper...
There are “secret ingredients” ranging from salted shrimp to a rice flour paste to anchovies to oysters…but they exist. Yes, kimchi often contains shellfish: my orthodox rabbi once reassured me, “kimchi is kosher.” Whoops. At the time, I didn’t realize kimchi contained shellfish. Whoo...
The best dishes we had were slices of raw scallop topped with Beluga caviar, with nothing to mediate between the flavors. And then a fish--St. Pierre (John Dory)--stuffed under the skin with lots and lots of bay leaves. There were so many bay leaves that the fish was virtually wallpa...
By the time they had finished only half the oysters, it seemed like the cold and wet was nothing more than an unpleasant memory. They were halfway through before Laelaer found something. A small pearl, nowhere near the size of the sailor's, but valuable nonetheless. The second one they ...
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