Last night Mass Oyster joined the Oyster Century Club for a
showing of the movie Shellshocked, a documentary that outlines the history of
oysters in New York as well as the efforts of a 28 organization coalition to restore them to areas including Brooklyn and the Hudson River.
The film also discusses the tremendous environmental
benefits of oysters; sheltering 300 other species of sea life as well and
cleansing the seawater.
The event was organized by food writer Jacqueline Church who
runs the Oyster Century Club. The Club is for oyster lovers with incentives
for those who have passed milestones in sampling a variety of the bivalves. They host tastings and events.
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| Jacqueline Church Food Writer |
To complement the movie, Abigail Carroll of Nonesuch Oysters out of
Biddeford Pool Maine provided a sampling. And her oysters had a wonderful
grassy finish on the palate. Abigail
sort of fell into the oyster industry when she began helping someone with a
business plan and inherited the start-up when the initial founder dropped out.
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| Abbigail Carroll of Nonesuch Oysters |
She did not speak extensively. But she should have. Check out her Ted Talk.
Fortunately, her business is blossoming and is now
getting ready to expand distribution beyond her home state and establish
distribution into the Hub.
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| Nonesuch Oysters |
The venue for the event, Zygomates is an award winning wine
bar-restaurant on South Street, a stone’s throw from South Station. It has a
nice ambiance, great service, and on certain evenings –Free Jazz.
Professor Ana-Marija Frankic of the Green Boston Harbor Project also spoke about her work to create salt marsh and other natural
features in Boston Harbors and her involvement in oyster restoration in Wellfleet. She supervises an intern funded by Mass Oyster.
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