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You Don't Need to Go to a Restaurant to Eat Oysters — Here's How to Shop, Shuck, and Serve Them at Home

The biggest holiday party flex? A raw bar. When I think about the moment I fell in love with food, I think about oysters. I was maybe 12, and slurping down a raw oyster felt like an alarming dare. I ...
WKRG

How this Gulf Shores restaurant is repurposing used oyster shells to help the ecosystem

The Oyster House collects the empty shells to put back in the bay. Since 2016, they have recycled over 23 million oyster shells. “Oyster shells are valuable,” Director of Oyster House Marketing ...
WTSP

Oysters have superpowers: Here's how

PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. — At The Tides restaurant in Safety Harbor, customers often open wide for oysters: “Yeah, they’re just tasty!” said Luceli Castanon, sitting at a corner table with two friends.
The Island Packet

Why you should recycle oyster shells after dining at Lowcountry restaurants

Seafood and coastal dining are a given in South Carolina’s Lowcountry. From blue crab, Lowcountry boils and she-crab soup, the options are almost endless. But one item on the menu serves more than ...
Orange County Register

Here’s how 724 pounds of shells from the DTLA Oyster Festival are helping the environment

Orange County Coastkeeper earlier in the week received a bounty of oyster shells, 724 pounds worth, from the recently resurrected DTLA Oyster Festival, brought back after a five-year hiatus. The hard ...