Another Oyster Thing
Every word written on oysters is elegiac, a halting Keith Levene lead from a broken speaker across...
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Tag: Anthony Wing
Warrant for Destruction
As the best and by far the most demure food writer in the country, I tend to deaf-ear the smashed...
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Oystertaker Blues
Shucking Competition Rulebook Penalties: CUT OR DAMAGED OYSTER MEAT Oyster shucking competitions,...
Read MoreSeasons of Contagion II
by Anthony Wing Being the second part, following the first part of the confessional memory of a six-week gazebo project… High weekday noon along a secondary Eigensinn road, a benign Appian Way hedged with scores of wine...
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Seasons of Contagion I
I was standing, nay swaying, with Oyster Boy in the massive courtyard-like quad midway through the 100-acre georgic sprawl of Eigensinn Farm. A longtime Stadtlander confrere and wilderness wellspring, OB visits so often that a remote cabin on the property has long been effectively oyster-annexed…
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A Shucker’s Railway Handbook
Anthony Wing explains the right and wrong way to speak to the person shucking your oysters.
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Anthony Wing’s Oyster Thing
Shuckers in busy restaurant or catering situations are alienated from intended and perceived ends: knives fly blind in search of the upper adductor muscle, which is somewhere near 2/3 down the shell from the entry mantle. Shucking is a presumptive knife skill, which isn’t welcome news for considerations of workplace safety.
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