The best oysters in the world

An intergenerational food ecology

It is always a delight to open your inbox in the morning and find, tucked amongst the flood of junk mail, an absolute gem of writing.

I often feel this way about Alicia Kennedy’s newsletter, but this morning’s issue on oysters was so good that it nearly brought me to tears (literally, but in a good way).

It’s an example of balance, just as she says oysters are an example of balance as a food: Here it’s the balance between the subject research we do as writers and the sources we draw from, and our own subjective experience as eaters.

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