Oysters are a staple of the festive season and gourmet meals. Yet opening them can be a daunting task. Between cuts and shell splinters, the operation sometimes seems perilous. Don't panic: with a ...

Use a kitchen towel to hold your oyster. "It's the safest way to be," Kolender says. Put the kitchen towel flat on a surface.

They’re famed for making us frisky. Yet far from being seductive, whenever I’ve had oysters I’ve felt ungainly and gauche.

Adam Rothbarth was the former Food & Kitchen Writer for VICE's shopping page, Rec Room, and contributes to Chicago Magazine, Eater, and more. So, we talked to Bill Nevruz, former East Coast ...

— -- If Champagne is the drink of choice on New Year's Eve, oysters are the meal. "They're celebratory and light," says Erin Byers Murray, author of Shucked: Life on a New England Oyster Farm (St ...