Hints and tips:
...While the farm sells several varieties of oysters, I go for the flagship Island Creek Oyster....
...Terry covered a rock exposed by the low tide with spinifex, the grass that edges the sea, and set fire to it. Soon we were picking freshly smoked oysters off the rock....
...The pre-colonial town of Wellfleet, sitting in the crook of the Cape’s elbow, is a short-ish drive inland, for sweet oysters and solid local craft beers....
...The menu focuses closely on seafood from the heritage coast, with sublime oysters – grown by Bill Pinney at Butley Creek – lobster bisque and roast fillet of halibut with champagne and Avruga caviar sauce...
...oysters and wood ears....
...Stiltsville Fish Bar serves fresh oysters, crab cakes and a selection of icy cocktails....
...Martin Laity, who runs Sailor’s Creek Shellfish based in Flushing, Cornwall, which before Brexit sent 10 tonnes of oysters and scallops a week to the EU, said there was “no time to wait” for a resolution...
...We settled in to our seats and, having been given new piratical names by the children, set out for an hour’s trip around Salcot creek....
...With the moon high in the sky, I lay awake reading Tanizaki in bed, looking out through a mesh screen towards the riverine creek....
...Far up the River Fal two sails zigzag across the shallows — working boats dredging for oysters. Soft hills shaded by yellow gorse fold into beautiful silver-green water....
...Summer is the ideal time to take the ferry across to Place Creek, and walk to either St Anthony’s Lighthouse or the pristine Porthcurnick Beach on the Roseland Peninsula....
...In a recent deal, a decommissioning company, Holtec, took over a plant at Oyster Creek, New Jersey, lock stock and barrel, on the basis that the accumulated fund would pay for the job....
...But now, in search of my overnight stop, I’d rounded the corner into the ria de Merrien, a river creek shaded by oak and beech, and passing a couple of oyster farms, I bid “bonjour” to their wellie-wearing...
...’s hot tub, a plastic affair plonked in the yard next to a rusting tug boat....
...The well-stocked bar has Knob Creek bourbon and other limited-edition surprises as well as house cocktails such as Emporio Red (champagne with rum and strawberries)....
...They can trap mud crabs at Catch a Crab and tour the Madura Tea Estate at Clothiers Creek....
...The Oyster Creek Generation Station in New Jersey was the first large-scale commercial nuclear plant to come on line in the US, in 1969, and it is running still, although scheduled to be shut down in 2019...
...As I started to look harder, the names got even better: Lousy Creek, Mosquito Creek, Dead Fish Billabong....
...Eventually it deposits them outside a warehouse on Suzhou Creek, where a woman sweeping the street points the diners to an unmarked door....
...Go on Sunday for his Mexican-style menu: I chose the six Island Creek oysters followed by cornbread-crusted French toast and the Mexican omelette, filled with avocado, beans, cheese and salsa....
...Barriers at the mouths of Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal and Newtown Creek on the Brooklyn-Queens border would help keep dry the growing number of residents and businesses housed in the city’s floodplain....
...Over a glass of 2012 Pedroncelli Chenin Blanc from California’s Dry Creek Valley, I watched the chefs in action: almost all of them, like the waiting staff, were sporting beards....
...“But once someone gets out there on the beach and has the fun you guys did, they’ll think, ‘Wow, this is for real.’ ” The boat slides past old railroad bridges and tug boats....
...Or perhaps Webb, who was navy secretary in the Reagan administration before he switched to the Democrats, still feels the tug of the Atlantic alliance....
...The fact that the Oyster Creek reactor is not in operation does not in itself mean that it is risk-free....
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