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Wed January 9, 2013
Food for Thought

Top your raw oyster with a Bloody Mary snow cone

Credit Nancy Leson
Nancy's son Nate shows how to beat the bivalves.

Nancy calls it a granita.  But really it's just a fancy snow cone.  In her latest article on oyster ingestion Seattle Times food writer Nancy Leson shares three granita recipes that go very well with oysters.

  • Nancy suggests ways for oyster newbies to enjoy that first slurp.

Punch that "listen Now" up there to hear her talk about her first raw oyster.  And agree to preside over my first oyster experience.  That's right -- I've never had one.  But Ms. Leson aims to fix that soon.  Keep watching this space for the thrilling photos.

"He was a bold man that first ate an oyster."

-- Jonathan Swift