photo by Robb Walsh
These petite-sized Galveston Bay oysters made a lovely breakfast. I ate them with some heavily buttered German sourdough rye toast from the HEB on Bunker Hill and a cup of Community Club coffee. A drop of lemon and a dash of Tabasco perked up the breakfast half shells nicely. Oysters and coffee taste great together.
I bought a sack of Galveston Bay oysters last week, probably my last of the season. I stop eating raw oysters when the water temperature gets above 65 F. The
"A couple of months would have been okay, but five months is too much," oysterman Misho Ivic said about the newly announced FDA summer oyster ban. Oystermen were taken by surprise last weekend when the FDA went over the head of the Interstate Shellfish Sanitation Commission and announced an aggressive new policy to clean up health problems caused by vibrio vulnificus bacteria. Now the oystermen are trying to push back. The sale of live Gulf oysters in the summer months is scheduled to end