Oyster note in T+L
Sunday, February 14th, 2010 Posted in In print/published, Lowcountry S.C./Charleston, Oysters, Travel | No Comments »Oysters make a nice valentine, I think. I had the chance to write up a few South Carolina oyster-eating places in Travel + Leisure's cover-story round-up of romantic destinations. Here's my blurb, on page 9o, titled "A Low-Country Drive." You ...
Sauerkraut and Belon
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009 Posted in Food, Maine days, Oysters, Travel | No Comments »On a November drive on the Maine coast north of Portland, we stopped in at Morse's Sauerkraut for a quart of their brined cabbage. I love the sour crunch, hot or cold. We met one of the owners and learned ...
Oyster season is on
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 Posted in Lowcountry S.C./Charleston, Oysters | No Comments »No, it’s not that you get a mouthful of pluff. It's more like when you swim in a saltwater creek and can lick the saltiness from your lips. That's the taste of our oysters, what we can pull from the ...
Water to fire
Friday, November 14th, 2008 Posted in Lowcountry S.C./Charleston, Oysters | No Comments »It was a bright morning on Sunday, and the low tide was higher than usual, with plenty of wind and chop in the Folly River. We slid the john boat in at the landing, and cruised along the backside of ...
Fishing the Inlet
Friday, September 26th, 2008 Posted in Art, Craft, Food, Lowcountry S.C./Charleston, Oysters, People | No Comments »We just spent a couple days and nights along the road just inside the creeks of Murrells Inlet, SC where no less than 30 seafood restaurants are set in with houses and a few other businesses like hair salons, boat ...
Bowens night: same as it ever was
Saturday, March 1st, 2008 Posted in Food, Lowcountry S.C./Charleston, Oysters | No Comments »Okay, this shellfish report is closer to home. We went out to Bowens Island last week, for some oysters just down the causeway. Even though fire burned the main building last year, Bowens Island looks about the same… graffitti, steaming ...
Half Shells Downstairs
Saturday, February 9th, 2008 Posted in Food, Oysters, Travel | No Comments »From swiveling stools at the Oyster Bar at Grand Central Station, we made our choices. It was Monday, just after 5:00, and crates of ice and oysters were stacked in front of us, cups of horseradish lined the bar. Tiles ...
Where oysters come from
Tuesday, March 27th, 2007 Posted in Food, Lowcountry S.C./Charleston, Oysters | No Comments »Went out on the Folly River on a cold Saturday a couple weeks ago, to hit the beds for some oysters. We took our hammers, our crates. The wind made the banks extra muddy. The oysters? Salty and perfect. We ...