Thousands of visitors each year, writes Dan Martino, sign on for one-hour BYOB voyages aboard his Cottage City Oysters farm tour vessel. Each tour involves “a lively, multifaceted conversation about oysters, the culture, and the future of humanity, all while drinking our favorite beverages, eating an endless supply of freshly harvested oysters, and cruising around in one of the most beautiful and pristine ocean environments the world has to offer.”
Those conversations informed Martino’s The Oyster Book, and upon being informed of this on page four, it’s hard not to spend each of the remaining three hundred six pages wishing you were out there on the boat instead of sitting somewhere else reading the longer, less flavorful version of the author’s oyster schtick.
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