Ostend oysters..."Small and rich, looking like little ears enfolded in shells, and melting between the palate and the tongue like salted sweets."
- Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) Bel Ami
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- Buy oysters direct online
- Oyster plate collecting
- Marco Pierre White - oysters with Sauterne jelly
- Roellinger - a scavenger's curry of oysters
- Bocuse - oyster soupe Lyonnaise
- Guerard - oysters with coriander and coffee
- Lucas Carton - Belons with Bellota Bellota
- Taillevant - oysters with truffles
- French gastronomy
- D'Artagnan and the greening of oysters
- A coastline of conchyculture
- Buy oysters direct
- Parisy's prawns and mussels
- Bellis's lobster and oysters
- Guet - an idealised vision
- Fouce - oysters and lemon
- Flaubert - I live like an open oyster
- France - oyster fables
- Cancale - the oyster garvest
- Cancale - the caravan leaves harbour
- Cancale - the bisquines
- John Singer Sargent - Cancale's oyster pickers
- Maupassant - salted sweets
- Northern Ireland - the oyster under threat of exti...
- Scotland oysters - pollution
- Saki - sympathetic unselfishness
- Music hall balads - of tubs and fubseys
- Scotland - the Dredging Song
- Scottish oysters - the creel lassie's cry
- Sunset on the Medway
- The deadly sweep of bonomia
- The frozen Thames
- Disaster disaster disaster
- The coming of the trains
- Boom and doom
- Ballad of the Basket of Oysters
- Muisc Hall oyster girls
- WS Gilbert
- Henry Mayhew
- William Makepeace Thackeray - eating babies
- Charles Dickens - secretive, self contained, solitary
- Jonathan Swift - A Bold Man
- Samuel Pepys - Bardsey oysters
- Shakespear - rich honesty dwells
- Chaucer on oysters
- 1 bushel basket = 53 pounds = 18 quarts canned
- Patois
- Smuggling and the black economy
- Vigilant siezes contraband
- Invitations to disorder
- Cooking down the Thames
- The first dining rooms
- Oysters for the queen
- From a humble oyster shed...
- In defence of English cooking
- Lost divers survive on oysters
- The Anglo Dutch wars
- The doomed metropolis of Dunwich
- Chardin's ray, basket of oysters, cat..and Proust
- The oyster feast by Jan Steen
- Jan Steen's name is used in a colloquialism to des...
- Manet's sense of realism
- Manet's oysters
- Chardin's Ray
- Beert, closer up
- Osias Beert, the abundance and the beauty
- Snyders kitchen scene
- Snyders a sexual opulence
- Snyders The Pantry
- Frans Snyder
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