The Oyster: "Where, How and When to Find, Breed, Cook and Eat It"

THE OYSTER; WHERE, HOW, AND WHEN

TO FIND, BREED, COOK, AND EAT IT!

OF the Millions who live to eat and eat to live in this wide world of ours, how few are there who do not, at proper times and seasons, enjoy a good oyster. It may not be an ungrateful task, therefore, if I endeavour to inform them what species of animal the little succulent shell-fish is, that affords to man so much gastronomical enjoyment—how born and bred and nurtured; when, and where; and, lastly, how best it may be eaten, ...