Word: oystering
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Were people simply to eat more fish that live lower down in the food chain, it would mean significant ecological pluses with no real diminution in human health benefits. That calculus may already be helping to recharge the allure of the modest shellfish, including the oyster, which is the target of reseeding campaigns from Long Island Sound to Puget Sound, where it has been most successful. Not only are oysters, along with other mollusks, good for you - oysters are freakishly high in zinc - they feed themselves...
...being able to thrive even in slightly polluted water, they provide an invaluable ecological service; a single adult oyster can filter 50 gal. (189 liters) of water a day. When Jamestown's founder John Smith first sailed into the pristine Chesapeake Bay 400 years ago, he had to navigate around oyster reefs 20 ft. high and miles long, which were effectively filtering the entire estuary - the country's largest - every few days, according to Rowan Jacobsen, author of the recent book A Geography of Oysters: The Connoisseur's Guide to Oyster Eating in North America. "If we can get oysters...
Pearl lovers, Hong Kong is your oyster. Just ask Joanne Larby. The Chicago accountant-cum-tourist was recently rubbing a strand against her teeth to verify the pearls' authenticity at a jewelry counter on Kowloon's Nathan Road. The teeth-test, of course, is overrated; rubbing the pearls against one another is more effective without risking damage to the gems. But Larby wasn't taking any chances. This was the 32nd string of pearls Larby had run across her pearly whites that day. "The pearls are just so cheap here," she explained, "I'm not convinced they're real...
...right, in a sense. Real, better known as natural, pearls are practically impossible to buy in Hong Kong or anywhere else, these days. Natural pearls occur when foreign material, usually a stone or parasite, enters an oyster's shell and it can't expel the irritant. The mollusk instead coats the intruder with nacre, the secretion used to make its shell, forming a pearl. Once, they were the exclusive preserve of royalty - the fact that only 1 in 10,000 oysters may contain a round natural pearl made them more valuable than diamonds...
...ultimate pleasure palace. Its London store is its biggest ever, comprising 80,000 square feet spread out over three floors offering 10,000 grocery items. These include 1,000 different wines, 425 cheeses, 40 types of sausage, 55 in-store chefs, a sushi bar, a champagne and oyster bar and a DJ-booth to play music for late-night shoppers...