Article: Heaven on a half-shell. (Washington's oyster business)

An eater's guide to Washington's favorite oyster towns, oyster bars, and oyster stew - plus an oyster tasting in Seattle

For some of us, few things are more sublime than the act of popping a raw, ice-cold oyster into the mouth, biting down once or twice, and then letting the partially masticated creature slip down the throat. For others, well ... that sentence probably sent them fleeing.

Now that we've cleared the room of nonbelievers, let's talk oysters, by which we generally mean Pacific oysters, a species native to Japan that now dominates the fishery. Unlike Washington's native oyster, the Olympia, which takes four years to reach the size of a quarter, ...

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