Ebook: Sex, Death and Oysters: a Half-Shell Lover's World Tour

Title Page; Dedication; ONE -- The Texas Shell Game; TWO -- Going At It Forks and Tongs; THREE -- Sin City's Wall of Fame; FOUR -- Irish Eye-sters; FIVE -- Grand Central Degustation; SIX -- English Oyster Cult; SEVEN -- Dreaming of a Huître Christmas; EIGHT -- Wild Bill on Hog Island; NINE -- Will Shuck for Food; TEN -- Cajun Oyster Pirates; ELEVEN -- Rodney's Sand Dune; TWELVE -- In My Bleeding Backyard; appendix -- The Oyster Bars; about the author; Copyright Page.;When award-winning Texas food writer Robb Walsh discovers that the local Galveston Bay oysters are being passed off as Blue Points and Chincoteagues in other parts of the country, he decides to look into the matter. Thus begins a five-year journey into the culture of one of the world's oldest delicacies. Walsh's through-the-looking-glass adventure takes him from oyster reefs to oyster bars and from corporate boardrooms to hotel bedrooms in a quest for the truth about the world's most profitable aphrodisiac. On the Atlantic, the Pacific, and the Gulf coasts of the U.S., as well as the Canadian.