Oysters - Everything You Wanted to Know, but Were Afraid To Ask or...... Eat!

I am sure; many of you have eaten oysters in your travels. If you have been to France, it’s a must, in order to taste the 'real' France . But eating is one thing, another is seeing how they are harvested and eating them right off the boat. Now,just outside Bordeaux, in the bay of Arcachon - home to famous oysters and scores of oyster growers and harvesters, you now have the chance to spend some time with an oyster grower; ah better than that, a beautiful oyster grower - Sylvie LATRILLE.
Sylvie has opened her business and profession to visits to see at first hand - the Oyster and how it is raised and harvested.
She offers many workshops (in between her growing and harvesting oysters)
~ The Shucking Workshop - Learn the skill (and it is a skill) of opening an oyster with the tasting of 6 different sizes and shapes

~ First Time Oyster Eaters Workshop - an introduction and conversation and tasting to people who don’t realize what they have been missing.- a glass of wine, bread and butter and a step by step class.

~ Going Out With The Tide - Experience a ride on an oyster barge to 'get the drift' of the oyster profession

........ Of course, just sitting outside her oyster shack, over looking the harbor and eating oysters, drinking local wine( from near by Bordeaux) and maybe enjoying some Pate? If you wish, you can even top that off with whelks, shrimps and clams.



Oyster Quartet - A Kiss From The Sea

Anyone who knows me; knows that first upon landing in Paris and my last day in Paris before I leave, I always have a few dozen oysters at one of my many favorite Fish-and-Oyster houses around the city. I am happy to report today, that a favortie that had fallen on hard times, has been bought and restored once again to a good destination for serious seafood lovers. The 4 restaurants that make up this mini-chain is called LE BAR A HUITRES. The menu has been revamped and offers a wonderful array of pedigreed bivales and the fish is not farmed rasied by wild and the taste proves that.
There are now four locations, 2 on the Left Bank.
Below is a menu to temp you on your next visit to Paris and you might be seeing me there.
http://www.lebarahuitres.com/pdf/carte_en.pdf