'Twas billed as a New Year's party of sorts, the 14th annual Oyster New Year held at Elliott's Oyster House on Seattle's Pier 56. Executive Chef Jeremy Anderson had just returned from Henderson Inlet to inspect the latest restoration work. Some 20 Washington wineries on hand, along with Olympia's Fish Brewing Company and Canada's Pearl Vodka.
The stars of the show, arrayed on the "World's Longest Oyster Bar" (90 feet, end to end): more than 30 types of oysters (Baywater Sweets, Chelsea Gems, Penn Cove Selects, Snow Creek Flats, Kumomotos, Westcott Bay petites) grown on Pacific Coast oyster grounds ranging from Tillamook Bay to Hood Canal, Willipa Bay to the San Juan Islands. Oyster guru Jon Rowley among the many shuckers.
Lots of action, too, over at the "Oyster Luge," where intrepid slurpers waited on their knees at the bottom of a slab of ice, mouths agape, for their delivery of slippery bivalves.
Posted by Ronald Holden at November 5, 2006 1:08 PM
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