Sunday, 6 July 2008

Miracle of the Morlaisen

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The French also had one miraculous slice of luck in this revival. Small numbers of the Portugese oyster (crassostrea angulata) had been tra...

French oysters - the vision of Victor Coste

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The effects of overfishing were more immediate and earlier than in Britain, but where in England the crisis was met by helpless chaos, the...
Sunday, 22 June 2008

Buy oysters direct online

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Buying oysters online is a treat, although digging out the farms between the London travel cards, rock bands, girl’s night outs and America...

Oyster plate collecting

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Another side phenomenon accompanied the rise of the oyster in urban dining…plates designed just for oysters. All the great French and Germa...

Marco Pierre White - oysters with Sauterne jelly

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In the days that the mercurial Marco Pirre White used to cook in the French style he refined his way with oysters in the same genre. When ...

Roellinger - a scavenger's curry of oysters

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Olivier Roellinger at Maisons de Bricourt in Brittany works closer to the water than the others and is a part of the oyster culture but som...

Bocuse - oyster soupe Lyonnaise

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Paul Bocuse, the legendary and avuncular totem of La Cuisine Francaise, manages to evoke both the classicism of a vichyssoisse with the...

Guerard - oysters with coriander and coffee

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At Michel Guerard’s Eugenie Les Bains they are served freshly opened with a zest of ginger, coriander and a Chantilly of green (unroasted) ...

Lucas Carton - Belons with Bellota Bellota

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At Troisgros in Roanne oysters are served warm with sorrel and cumin. At Lucas Carton in Paris - above - large Belon oysters are roasted in...

Taillevant - oysters with truffles

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The big French restaurants have all been tempted to set down their own essay on how to best treat the oyster, although there are no hints o...

French gastronomy

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The oyster takes it place in the pantheon of French gastronomy, but as Graham Robb points out in his Discovery of France, French provin...

D'Artagnan and the greening of oysters

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From the Charente to the Gironde is an open oyster garden in the sea, at the heart is the Marennes-Oléron, famous for their greenish...