Please Help Save Texas Oysters!
New flow standards are being considered for the Trinity and San Jacinto Rivers that could deprive Galveston Bay oysters of adequate freshwater. The public comment period on these changes to …
Gaido's Regaining Its Glory
I had a stunning crab salad and an elegant red snapper in lemon butter at Gaido’s last week. I also met the new head chef, Casey Gaido. Casey is a …
Gulf Oyster Farming
These Point aux Pins oysters were among the best Gulf oysters I’ve eaten lately. They were grown from hatchery spat in racks off the bottom of Mobile Bay, and like …
Texas Oyster Season Opens
My first Texas oysters of the season came from “south of Corpus Christi” according to the waiter at Denis’ Seafood on I-10 in Houston. I assume he meant Corpus Christi …
Oyster Planting Time
Last Thursday, when I was out on Galveston Bay checking oyster leases, I got the rare opportunity to watch a “seeding.” For a few days each year, Texas Parks & …
Texas Oyster Forecast
Ben Nelson and Tracy Woody took me and seafood dealer Jim Gossen out on Galveston Bay to check their oyster leases yesterday. Jeri’s Seafood, named after Ben’s wife Jeri Nelson, …
Oysters and Cold Rain Sounds Lovely
Today is the final day of the Clarenbridge Oyster Festival, so you’ve missed that lovely little get together. But you still have time to book a flight to Shannon, Ireland …
Texas Oyster Season Ends Early
The Texas Department of Health closed the oyster season on Friday due to an algae bloom. The problem isn’t the potentially deadly vibrio vulnificus, but another organism called dinophysis, which …
Oysters and Politics at Gilhooley's
Oysters Gihooley won several more converts yesterday. Mike Lavigne, a government relations consultant from Austin was in town to learn about the oyster biz. He liked the pecan-smoked barbecued oysters …
Oysters as a Cure-All
Preacher Pappy won fourth place in the oyster decorating contest at Fulton Oysterfest in 2009. I suspect that this Preacher Pappy Oyster Brew wagon was this year’s entry in the …