How to Eat an Oyster + Literary References

How to Eat an Oyster Oyster maven Jon Rowley and I each had our first oyster vicariously through Ernest Hemingway in A MOVEABLE FEAST. “As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.