This year has brought an especially good crop of New York oyster varieties, reports Grub Street, and offers "three top places to slurp your share of the local abundance." I would like to do a comparison of some New England oysters and some Long Islands because Wellfleets are my favorite, but I can't say I've really tried Blue Points or some of the others mentioned in the Grub Street article.
Posted on December 8, 2006
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