US meets UK

A few weeks ago I headed up to New York to visit with friends. We checked out the Renegade Craft Fair in Brooklyn, which was loads of fun. Cathy wrote a brilliant recap and I’ll direct you to her for the fun parade we had.

(she says to make me one with bacon… she is correct!)

Before I started killing ducks, I first killed an oyster.

With the amazing instruction of Nellie (she of Canary and Pinkblot fame) Nick (Mr.Dahlia, not my Nick) and I were able to shuck a few. Did you know when you get Oysters they are alive, and when you shuck them-you’re killing them. I did not know this, and found out on Oyster #2.

We did not do the majority of shucking though, that part was done by the time the Swans and I arrived. Oh the glory!

The Canaries, Swans, Dahlias, a Penguin and a Shoe all made quick work of the amazing spread. Nellie is amazing and so, so, SO well informed. She teaches occasional classes in (I think) Brooklyn and she was also interviewed for Serious Eats.

Her seafood was so amazingly fresh – I really don’t think I can buy from anywhere else. Which is sad, because I live in DC and not NYC. Would it be wrong to bring back mussels on the Megabus? Probably…

Want more on Nellie, W&T Seafood, or Oysters? Check out the video and the article!

A Native NYer Makes the Case for West Coast Oysters: W&T Seafood’s Nellie Wu from SkeeterNYC on Vimeo.

PS. ALL, ALL the photos are from Cathy at Wifey Lifey. Stupid me brought a dead battery camera. Genius!

PPS. Don’t read Weddingbee? We all have monikers – hence the purple shoe over to the right!

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