"I can confidently say that there’s nothing to beat the flavour of Irish oysters - only the little Olympia oysters from the west coast around Puget Sound come close."
A morning on Cork’s biggest Oyster farm
In a new four-part series, RICHARD GORDON spends the day with some of the producers supplying Cork’s Farmers’ Markets. Today he writes about his visit to Cork’s biggest oyster Farm, Rossmore Oysters
Oysters from the farm are sold at local markets. Picture: Joleen Cronin
Richard Gordo
I WAS told to be at the farm for 8am. There, I would be given ‘wet gear’ so I could get involved and have a proper look at the farm from the inside. The inside in this case being a wet, Wednesday morning deep in the belly of an icy winter.