Mouth-watering oyster recipes

Pacific oysters are at their best right now.

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13th July, 2012

My heart turns to France this week as Bastille Day (July 14) is imminent. I have great memories of living and working in France as a young cook in the British Embassy, and I adore French cuisine. But most of all I’m in love with Paris’s traditional brasseries, where mountains of oysters pile up outside on trays beside the pavement and waiters in floor-length aprons collect them from oyster shuckers. Whenever we visit Paris, our first stop is Brasserie Bofinger, near the Place de la Bastille, or a little specialty oyster bistro, Huîtrerie Regis, just off the Boulevard Saint-Germain. It’s ...

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