Seafood Express

Fresh oysters, from the flats to your door

Island Creek Oysters, a boutique oyster farm on Massachusetts's Duxbury Bay, has been supplying high-end restaurants like Per Se and Charlie Trotter's--even the White House--for years. Now, oyster lovers no longer have to drop $200 on dinner to sample these beautifully briny, rough-shelled bivalves.

Oysters in warmer waters (such as nearby Wellfleet) turn gamey and tough during the summer spawning season, but Duxbury Bay's oysters never spawn (the water's too cold), so they can be eaten year-round.

Island Creek's new online store (and FedEx delivery) makes it possible to shuck a fresh oyster ($100 for 100 or $18 a dozen) within 24 hours of its harvest--anywhere in the continental United States. It also sells wild razor clams ($5.75 a pound) and in-the-shell jumbo scallops ($3.50 a pound) harvested from a Cape Cod day boat, as well as essential oyster-shucking gloves and knives.

While you wait for your shipment, check out this shucking primer from Island Creek's Don Merry, who demonstrates his "patented lollipop method" here.

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