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Proustian Meroir by Caroline App Oysters must be experienced with body and mind aside. I had never kept this in mind until suddenly I had picked one up, surrounded by my peers and smiling owners of Bodega Bay Co. I jumped down the rabbit hole, or so to speak walked the conveyor belt of people […]

    For our oyster video, we wanted to instill a feeling of home. Pat is from the American South, so traditional fried oysters sounded like a good way for oysters to travel cross-country into our frying pan in Pat’s kitchen! We used Pacific oysters dipped Louisiana Traditional Fish Fry, dunked into vegetable oil five […]

Feature image by Caroline of the sea in Santa Cruz, CA. 3a) On your website complete the table of your group’s 3 favorite insights from oyster tastings done in class during weeks 4 (Tomales Bay, if you were in California), 6 (Taylor Shellfish), and 7 (Donedei Winery).   Group Members Favorite Oyster Tasting Location Flavor […]

  Alongside the water body, oyster in hand, you resonate with your location, and you associate the brine and the sweet and the butter-tones of the small, fleshy body with the powerful force beside which you stand. You easily associate the salt and the sweet with the smell of the marine wafting up off of […]

4a) What is Meroir? Meroir is the savoring of an aquatic location, the embodiment of ocean brine in your mouth through another vessel. The oyster serves as the most pure form of this vessel, which filters gallons of water through its grey, fleshy body, weathered by the tides and by the people who interact with the […]

4a) What is Meroir? Meroir is the savoring of an aquatic location, the embodiment of ocean brine in your mouth through another vessel. The oyster serves as the most pure form of this vessel, which filters gallons of water through its grey, fleshy body, weathered by the tides and by the people who interact with the […]