123 Oysters on Ice - An Amazingly Important Piece in Building American Food

The History of American Food · Jul 3, 2024 · 35m

If we are ever going to cryogeneically preserve humans, we have got to learn a lot more about Oyster Liquor. Sci-Fi aside, come along and discover how much 19th cenurty America - not just American food is built upon the oyster harvest. Everybody everywhere was eating them - by the barrel and bucket full. It was common to find recipes that blithely started with a gallon of oysters or a hundred oysters. Can you imagine?

I can't.

But follow along with Thomas G Downing as he builds his fortune and America starts to grow up with the sale of oysters for lunch and as an export food.

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