Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Honor Allen was 12 years old when he shucked his first oyster, and little did he know it was the start of a blissful journey that ...

The nation’s fastest oyster-shucker closed his eyes, drew a deep breath, kissed his knife and tore into a pile of stubborn shellfish, prying them open quicker than a kid with a bagful of Starburst. By ...

Every day is practice for Jordan "Jay" Gallet. Known as the "master shucker" at Superior Seafood, Gallett shucks roughly 2,000 oysters a day behind the Uptown restaurant's oyster bar. And next week, ...

Shucking oysters isn't easy, and for Cathy Milliken from Ocean Beach, NC, it could put her in the hospital. Milliken, who won the national championship for oyster shucking in 1986, is allergic to the ...

Becky Wasden and Stefani Sell run the traveling oyster shucking business Two Girls One Shuck (www.twogirlsoneshuck.com). For the past two years, the women have brought their shucking skills to ...

Whenever Eileen McGuire has new houseguests at her home in Southold, one of the musts on her itinerary is to take them to an oyster shucking class. “It’s fabulous,” said McGuire. “Very educational, ...