oysters – Orangette https://orangette.net Fri, 01 Jan 2016 14:50:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 Now here, now there https://orangette.net/2010/10/now-here-now-there/ https://orangette.net/2010/10/now-here-now-there/#comments Thu, 14 Oct 2010 23:58:00 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2010/10/14/now-here-now-there I have two half brothers who live on the East Coast, and when I was a kid, if they came home for the holidays, they would bring a Styrofoam cooler of oysters. My father would get out his knife and shucking glove and lean against the kitchen counter, flicking grit and shells into the sink as he went, and they would all stand around, eating and sighing, making the noises that people make when they eat oysters. I don’t know how old I was that night, but I think I must have been about six. I stood next to my father while he shucked, and he leaned down and gave me an oyster, a fat one, an enormous one, amoeba-like,…

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