Look no further for a Classic Oyster Stew recipe, one of Southern Living's Best Oyster recipes. It's simple, which means the flavor of the oysters is of utmost importance. Thankfully, much of the ...

"A young boy or girl can stomach even oysters if that’s the most direct path to the presents," columnist Terry Woster writes. "Dad loved the stuff. Really, that’s why she made it each Christmas Eve." ...

W e’re so used to many-ingredient stews that cook for hours that when the recipe for oyster stew landed in our kitchen, it looked almost too simple. We wondered if something was missing from the ...

Food is many things: flavors, textures, smells, an excuse to use your fingers to clean a bowl that was used to mix chocolate cake batter. But food is also memory. It’s a time machine, resurrecting ...

In much of America you once knew it was really winter when you got your first bucket of oysters. That’s when the weather got cold enough the oysters could keep longer than a day or two, insulated by ...

We were wandering south along Tomales Bay a couple of months ago and stopped in for oysters at a little place called Marshall Store. I ordered up a dozen raw, and an icy Sierra Nevada. And then, just ...

Tinker with cornbread, play with pimento cheese, put fancy dark chocolate into pecan pie but please don't mess with oyster stew. When it comes to steaming bowls of this winter delight, only milk, ...

When eating out, I slurp oysters raw, as shooters or on the half-shell with mignonette sauce. I love them dusted with cornmeal or panko breadcrumbs, and fried. At home, though, I prefer to whip up a ...

Drive sixty miles from my hometown in Alabama and you come to the Gulf of Mexico. During our cold-weather months, there were temporary shacks that served up Apalachicolas. They'd shuck 'em for you ...

When I was growing up, the winter holidays meant oyster stew. I always considered this special savory soup to be the epitome of elegance — and it truly is. But, until now, I never realized that this ...