This is the season for oysters. Two species dominate the U.S. market: Crassostrea virginica, harvested in the Gulf of Mexico and along the East Coast, and Crassostrea gigas from the West Coast. The ...

LOS ANGELES — Ari Kolender knows oysters. His two seafood restaurants — Found Oyster in East Hollywood and Queen's Raw Bar & Grill in Eagle Rock — serve tens of thousands of oysters a week. Between ...

Of the many -- Many! -- delicious things I've tossed on the grill over the years, I'll confess that oysters never made it onto my menu. It simply never occurred to me that my experience of this simple ...

Despite true tales of shell mounds once overwhelming the streets of New York City, never before has oyster culture so enveloped the entire United States, where the briny bivalves can be enjoyed at ...