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January 1, 2008

Oysters: The Trendy Food

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Wilbur Reeling sent me a link to his blog Quintessential Cuisine. I had just been surfing the net doing some research on the hot trends coming up in 2008 (see tomorrow's post), and one of them was oysters.

I know they don't sound very trendy, but I have noticed seafood restaurants offering more varieties lately. And this I didn't know: There are more and more places now where you can order oysters online.

Anyway, Reeling's photos taken at local places will make you hungry for them.

 

(Photo courtesy of Wilbur Reeling) 

Posted by Elizabeth Large at 4:38 PM | | Comments (7)
Categories: What's Hot
        

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trendy=pricey

Oysters are an unsubstantiated aphrodisiac food...hehehe! I sense another Top Ten Tuesday in the making!

McCormick and Schmick has offered a variety of oysters for years. The choices vary depending on what they can get, but place-of-origin is always specified. A sampler is also available so the customer can try bivalves from around the country. We still think the Chincoteague reigns supreme.

I just did a post on oysters, too. We had Blue Points and Chincoteagues, and I like the BPs better. They were saltier and tasted like the sea.

Happy New Year to all!

As a Maryland girl who has been "slurping" raw oysters since I was a kid, sad to say the best oysters I've ever had came out of the Delaware Bay this October. Bought from a small seafood shack in Lewes, fresh-caught. Enormous, salty and delicious.

I see a lot of buzz here about oysters...i live on the Canton side of town so I grab a few at Mama's but not a great selection...Ryleigh's Oyster is by far the new place SERIOUS about oysters. Varieties from all over the country every day and fresh! Not to mention you get to eat them at a pure slate oyster bar!

Like Jane, I too had remarkably good oysters from the Delaware Bay in October -- at a restaurant in Atlantic City. Maybe not the best ever, but certainly in the top five of my experience.

Several times Wegmans has had a selection of oysters from different waters and it's fun to buy a couple of each and try them side to side.

FWIW: this Maryland Canon happens to be a "he." I noticed that Elizabeth carefully finessed the gender ambiguity of my ID.

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Elizabeth Large, The Baltimore Sun's restaurant critic, blogs about memorable meals, dining trends, comings and goings on the restaurant scene and more.
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