The oysters we had the other night in P-town were getting spawny. It’s summer–a cool one, but still summer, so the oysters have lost their briny, idiosyncratic edge, the flavor that marks them as a certain species in a certain water. They’ve grown flabby and creamy, inevitably fertile. I’m glad there are cultivated things that [...]
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oysters
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Fun With Fish
Posted in Seafood, tagged Cape Cod lobster, Cape Cod oysters on July 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We spent the Fourth weekend on the Cape, and, for me, it was an absolute festival of shellfish, topped off with a feast of fish. (More on all that to come…) We were welcomed after the long drive with an easy going dinner at a new fish joint in Provincetown—Townsend’s. My step-father-in-law, Curtis, is a [...]




