Photo of the Week by Owen Franken ’68—July 23, 2011

Oysters served on the weekends at the wine bar Le Baron Rouge in Paris. A perfect example of a symbiotic business relationship, oyster farmer Bernard Delis arrives every weekend from November to April with a truckload of his oysters from the Bay of Arcachon, near Bordeaux. He opens them outside the bar and they are served a traditional way, with lemon and bread and butter. The bar is always jammed with plates of oysters on every conceivable surface, including the hoods, trunks, and roofs of parked cars (© Owen Franken).

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