oyster
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The restaurant, named for Cimarusti’s grandparents — Constance and Edward — opened to fanfare, acclaim and “feverish oyster shucking.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2026
Platner, with his war record, oyster farmer's gnarled hands, and plain talk, seemed to fit the bill.
From Barron's • May 3, 2026
Her vision is not a single large company, but a network of small family farms - something closer to the quiet expansion of oyster aquaculture along the New England coast.
From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026
To better understand its ecological effects, Jusino and her colleagues studied dead elm trees both with and without golden oyster mushrooms.
From Science Daily • Apr. 24, 2026
“Let me open you up one. M-m-m-man, when you eat an oyster, you taste the ocean and the river and the marsh and shrimp b-b-boats. Man, you bite into a livin’ piece of the lowcountry.”
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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