Easy does it: the slow food movement takes on the fast food culture. (Eating Right).

E Magazine | September 1, 2002| | Copyright

The sun was setting for the Delaware Bay oyster. Once a prominent cash crop for harvesters along New Jersey's southern shores, mismanagement, parasites and pollution depleted the river's raw bar and decimated a once-thriving trade. This seafood lover's treat, with its "fine, mild flavor [and] plump meat quality" might have disappeared entirely, but then the U.S. branch of the Slow Food movement intervened, connecting the few remaining harvesters to restaurants, distributors and consumers. The Delaware Bay oyster is now world-renowned, and has became a protected delicacy.

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