If you must cook oysters, here's how to do it

By Steve Manfredi
Updated August 7 2012 - 8:18am, first published 7:49am
Balla Restaurant at Star Casino.
Steve Manfredi food day.
Pictured is Oysters : Ostiches alla Tarantina.
28th June 2012.
Photo: Steven Siewert
Balla Restaurant at Star Casino. Steve Manfredi food day. Pictured is Oysters : Ostiches alla Tarantina. 28th June 2012. Photo: Steven Siewert

In his excellent book The Food of Italy, the American journalist and writer Waverley Root tells the story of a restaurateur who worked in the Italian seaside town of Porto Garibaldi during World War II. He invented a dish called ''oysters exarchate'' and offered it exclusively to the occupying American soldiers.

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