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Oysters

Women returning from the oyster parcs.

How Oysters Kept a King Satisfied and Women in Charge

In Cancale, the seasonal absence of men meant women ran the show.

Leigh Chavez-Bush October 26, 2018

World Oyster Opening Championship

Welcome to the olympics of oyster shucking.

The Boston Stabber

This praised oyster shucker is as elegant as it is dangerous.

Papier mâché sea dragons by the artists at Total Pap.

Whitstable Oyster Festival

Every July, a seaside town pays homage to its local mollusks with eating contests, a marine-themed parade, and plenty of fresh seafood.

The newly found oyster (left) is a much bigger bivalve than the ones that often surface in New York's waters.

New York's Insatiable Appetite for Truly Enormous Oysters

A massive mollusk recently found in the Hudson River is the latest example of two centuries of appreciating behemoth bivalves.

Jessica Leigh Hester August 1, 2018

The outside of the museum.

Savannah, Georgia

Pin Point Heritage Museum

A unique museum dedicated to the Gullah-Geechee people, housed within an old oyster cannery.

Who needs a lemon on the side when you can have oysters with lemon on the inside?

Perhaps You'd Like to Try Lemon or Raspberry Flavored Oysters

After years of testing, a French gastronaut is offering everyone's favorite happy hour mollusks in a rainbow of flavors.

Natasha Frost December 26, 2017

A Hangtown Fry is the true breakfast of champions.

Hangtown Fry

This bacon-and-oyster omelet was a status symbol during the California Gold Rush.

Straight out of Bluff, New Zealand.

Bluff Oysters

The rarest oysters come from the bottom of the sea at the end of the earth.

Oyster pirates illegally dredging under the cover of night.

The Notorious Oyster Pirates of Chesapeake Bay

They were the colorful villains in a conflict that lasted almost a century.

Kerry Wolfe September 28, 2017