![]() Is increasingly alive and well throughout Maryland. That enthusiasm-so reflective of the oyster’s reign supreme. Those mammoth oysters might be a thing of the past, but Of trained and lusty esophagus, a thing of prolonged and kaleidoscopicįlavors, a slow slipping saturnalia, a delirium of joy!” But to the veteran of the raw bar, the man ![]() Matchless reptile! Hard to swallow? Dangerous? Perhaps to the The river and at street stands along the wharves-is as largeĪs your open hand,” wrote Mencken in 1913. Of the Chesapeake, still to be had at oyster roasts down “The largest genuine Maryland oyster-the veritable bivalve Served as an economic powerhouse-forever imprinting on Tasty specimen of seafood that built towns, ignited wars, and Homemade habitats provide shelter for other species butĪlso protection from natural disasters and climate change. So environmentally advantageous that it could once clean Quite worthy of the title “natural wonder:” a tiny filter feeder Once known as Oyster City-the peculiar, polarizing, pivotalĬreature is more than just a slippery shellfish. But forĪnyone living in Maryland-let alone in Baltimore, which was Ugly, strange, sexy, controversial-the small but mighty oyster. Has stood out as an especially vital source of edible andĮcological significance. Have always been crabs and rockfish, one species in particular When he declared the Chesapeake Bay the “immense proteinįactory.” Abundant with marine life, the nation’s largest estuary
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