In the South, oyster shucking is something rarely learned from a manual. It’s picked up dockside, behind raw bars, or at a ...

LOS ANGELES — Ari Kolender knows oysters. His two seafood restaurants — Found Oyster in East Hollywood and Queen's Raw Bar & Grill in Eagle Rock — serve tens of thousands of oysters a week. Between ...

Mark E. Potts is the senior editor for video at the Los Angeles Times. A native of Enid, Okla., Potts graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a master’s degree in broadcast journalism. He has ...

MINNEAPOLIS — If you're from the Midwest, there's a decent chance you've never learned to properly shuck an oyster — until now. The Smack Shack is now offering oyster shucking classes at both its ...