In New York, Dickens describes cellars serving "oysters, pretty nigh as large as cheese-plates". "Dutch reports of foot-long oysters were only slightly exaggerated", confirms Matt Kurlansky in his ...
Over the course of 10 years, the Billion Oyster Project, one of New York's most ambitious rewilding initiatives, has planted 150 million larvae in its harbour. Did it work? The eastern oyster has ...