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By Ron Bechtol
on Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 11:01 AM
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Ron Bechtol
Southerleigh at the Pearl offers outdoor seating and a chance to pair oysters with beer.
There are many versions of the following quote, which is attributed to Jonathan Swift: “He was a bold man who first ate an oyster.” None, as far as I know, suggest that that first shucker and slurper could have been a woman, so let’s add that to the stew for the record.
Whoever the oyster-eating OG might have been, their progeny have grown up to be diehard connoisseurs, a phenomenon that can be witnessed even in inland outposts such as San Antonio where we’re experiencing a veritable tidal surge in oyster bars. The newest, helmed by a woman at that, opened in early December.