Dinner & A Book
Dinner & A Book - The Big Oyster: History On The Half Shell
Local Productions
- Dinner & a Book
- Economic Outlook
- Education Counts
- Experience Michiana
- Outdoor Elements
- Politically Speaking
- Raising of America
- Women in Leadership
- Beyond Bridges
- Joey D's Kitchen
- Our Town Series
- Legends Of Michiana
- Other Productions
Featured Productions
PBS Kids
State & National
- 10 Homes That Changed America
- 10 Modern Marvels That Changed America
- 10 Parks That Changed America
- 10 Streets That Changed America
- America's Heartland
- America's Test Kitchen
- American Black Journal
- American Experience
- American Masters
- Ancient Roads From Christ to Constantine
- Antiques Roadshow
- As Time Goes By
- Austin City Limits
- Baking With Julia
- Best of Sewing With Nancy
- Body Electric
- Christopher Kimball's Milk Street Television
- Ciao Italia
- Civilizations
- Classic Gospel
- Classical Stretch: By Essentrics
- Consuelo Mack WealthTrack
- Curious Crew
- Ecosense for Living
- Education Counts Michiana
- Family Plot: Gardening in the Mid-South
- Firing Line With Margaret Hoover
- Fons & Porter's Love of Quilting
- Frontline
- Functional Fitness With Suzanne Andrews
- Garden Smart
- History Detectives
- Independent Lens
- Indiana Lawmakers
- Indiana Week in Review
- Inside Indiana Business
- Kid Stew
- Kingdoms of the Sky: Himalaya
- Live From Notre Dame
- Michigan Out of Doors
- Native Report
- NHK Newsline
- NOVA
- Off the Record
- Overheard With Evan Smith
- Paint This With Jerry Yarnell
- Painting and Travel With Roger & Sarah Bansemer
- Painting With Wilson Bickford
- POV
- Quilting Arts
- Rick Steves' Europe
- Samantha Brown's Places to Love
- Seeing Canada
- Sit and Be Fit
- Song of the Mountains
- Songs at the Center
- Steven Raichlen's Project Fire
- The American Woodshop
- The Best of the Joy of Painting
- The Friday Zone
- The Laura Flanders Show
- The Lawrence Welk Show
- The Whitney Reynolds Show
- This American Land
- This Old House
- To the Contrary With Bonnie Erbé
- Under the Radar Michigan
- Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
- Wai Lana Yoga
- Weekends With Yankee
- Wild Travels
- Woodsmith Shop
- Woodsongs
- Yoga in Practice
This video is not available right now. Check again later.
Episode #606 - The Big Oyster: History On The Half Shell
Here's a chatty, free-wheeling history of New York City told from the humble perspective of the once copious, eagerly consumed, now decimated eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginicas). Research addict Kurlansky (Cod, etc.) starts from the earliest evidence of Lenape oyster middens, or beds, discovered by explorer Henry Hudson and others as evidence that natives enjoyed the shellfish as a delicacy, much as the Europeans did.
Original Airdate: July 26, 2008