Oyster Cult
February, 2006
More than any other food, the oyster is better known for what it represents than for how it tastes. You could fill a dictionary with its connotations. Currency: The Romans paid for them with their weight in gold. Decadence: They didn't call them oyster palaces for nothing. Courage: "He was a bold man that first ate an oyster"--Jonathan Swift. Power: the young JFK slurping them down at Boston's Union Oyster House; FDR, George W. Bush and Dick Nixon making pilgrimages to Antoine's in New...
