Sex, Death and Oysters: A Half-Shell Lover's World Tour

A surprise–filled shellfish survey dishes up “ample oyster facts, figures and literary lore” (Publishers Weekly).

When award–winning Texas food writer Robb Walsh discovers that the local Galveston Bay oysters are being passed off as Blue Points and Chincoteagues in other parts of the country, he decides to look into the matter. Thus begins a five–year journey into the culture of one of the world’s oldest delicacies. Walsh’s through–the–looking–glass adventure takes him from oyster reefs to ...