I found this morning, an article in the London Times (yes, the Brits it seems gives a lot of their seafood treasures away to other countries, but they do like oysters in season)
an editorial from September 4, 1919!
In part it reads ( and is still true today, I must add)
' Oysters are among the oldest foods of the human race. The presence of their shells in the ancient kitchens of the Baltic shows that man was eating them in the remote ages when the brackish waters of that land-locked sea were still salt.
Primitive man, ( American's take heed of this) used no condiments and the modern man ( foodie or epicure, my words) is advised to follow the old way. It seems nowadays,many people ( mainly Americans, my words now) replaces the natural juice, that should be redolent of the sea, with all kinds of things to cover up the taste of this most wondrous product from the sea.
Stop it! If you must, do what we do in France, the oysters are served with a little bowl containing wine vinegar, onion and herbs into which each oyster is to be plunged for a number of seconds.'
But, but best of all is just the oyster and its juice itself.
As someone once remarked, its like kissing the sea on the lips.
PS: Don't even get me started on cooked oysters..to do so is to take a vintage Bordeaux wine and add a soft drink to it..
