An oyster can filter over 35 gallons of water a day, cleaning the environment in the process. See the Chesapeake Bay Foundation's video.
Rowan Jacobsen, author of the recently released book A Geography of Oysters, was recently interviewed on National Public Radio. “A raw oyster was not designed for our pleasure. Appreciating it is more like catching a glimpse of a fox in the woods: The experience lasts only a moment but leaves us in a fleeting state of grace." Read and listen to the interview on NPR.
In Local Waters, an Oyster Resurgence
Two years after a failed effort to declare it an endangered species, the Eastern oyster is making a big comeback, thanks in part, experts say, to farming and habitat restoration efforts across the Northeast. Since disease nearly wiped the oyster out a decade ago, more...
