My long response to a Mother Jones story claiming the oyster loaf/peacemaker was invented at a San Francisco saloon kept me sifting through emails and Twitter messages for much of the weekend. Scores ...

‘Did you ever eat an oyster loaf?” The Evening Post asked its readers in 1897. Had the question been put to someone living in San Francisco or New Orleans, the answer would surely have been yes — but ...

Re: "Bivavle brouhaha," Living, April 24. A fried oyster po-boy. I enjoyed Brett Anderson's piece debating the origins of the oyster loaf. But I question the premise that this foodway was necessarily ...

I've been an inveterate newspaper reader for decades. When I was growing up, one of the things I always looked forward to this time of year was the column by Helena native Richard Allin about the ...

I don’t think twice about celebrating Mardi Gras with fried oysters and garlicky mayonnaise sauce. After all, we’re not celebrating Low-Fat Tuesday. And isn’t the whole point of celebrating the ...

New Orleans is a city of celebrations. While Mardi Gras immediately comes to mind, it is a city that enjoys celebrating. A favorite dish is oyster loaf. It is suitable for a backyard get-together or a ...

Everything about Ye Olde College Inn made it an iconic restaurant. That funny name, for starters. The very visible location. The decades-old sign depicting an oyster loaf. The worn-out old building.

The scene: Nearly a century ago, Joe Casamento, an immigrant from Italy, opened a simple oyster bar in New Orleans. Located in the Irish Channel neighborhood within the larger Garden District ...

Since its inception nearly five decades ago (1976), S&D Oyster Company has remained an Uptown fixture for seafood. From the back kitchen, a seemingly endless stream of oysters prepared every which way ...

It’s a funny thing about oysters. It’s OK to eat them elsewhere than by the sea. They travel, a boon for many a landlocked diner. I once ate oysters in a remote restaurant in the Alps you could get to ...