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Small,
Expensive Oysters
Earl asks:
It seems to me that oysters are very small right now. Is thiere any reason for this? Tom sez: Half of it is a seasonal thing, but we should be about over that late-summer flabbiness that causes oysters to shrink incredibly when cooked. The other issue has to do with the weather. Apparently the alternating big thunderstorms with very dry weather washes so much concentrated junk into the water that the oysters get covered with silt. (Some of this has to do with after-effects of the hurricane.) The oyster guys say that the harvest is a but short right now, but that there will be enough oysters for Thanksgiving--if at a somewhat higher price. (And that owes much to a lack of oystermen and oyster boats, both of which were hit very hard by Katrina.) In other words, just wait it out. The oysters will get back up to their customary corpulence in a month or so. Revised 3/10/08 Copyright © 2008 Tom Fitzmorris. All rights reserved. |
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