The Man Who Changed the Way We Eat by Thomas McNamee

Author:Thomas McNamee
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Free Press

When you are ready to dine, and not a moment earlier, open your favorite oysters—only the fattest and fleshiest ones to be sure—and make sure that each is still alive by exploring its reflexes. This is quite simple—simply touch the edge of the lamella;10 if it does not retract, the oyster has expired. Remove the living creature from its shell—in the most delicate manner possible—and bring it immediately into your mouth with no extraneous trimmings whatsoever and in a trice, with your teeth, perforate its liver.11 If it is an oyster of proper freshness and quality, the whole of your gums will soak in it, your mouth will be filled with its juices, the true criterion of an oyster that has reached its peak.

You should rest for a moment in that state, then slowly swallow the juices and finish off the mastication and deglutition12 of the mollusk. After that, invigorate yourself with a mouthful of good, dry white wine, munch a piece of black or white bread, buttered or not, this solely to neutralize the tongue in order to savor to the fullest the oyster to follow. . . .

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