: About Me

I'm a longtime lover (no pun intended) of fresh on the half shell oysters. I've had them in a number of places around this great country yet my favorite place is right at home in SoPo (south of Portland, Oregon). I frequently have the oysters shipped in from Willapa Bay. A small online retail purveyor down there (willapa-oysters.com) ships them UPS ground right to my doorstep. What sets these oysters apart is their pedigree. They are Virginicas, a type of oyster indigenous to the Atlantic coast from Nova Scotia to Argentina. Most common variety on the west coast is the Pacific, a Japanese ...