Impress Your Valentine With Oysters
You’ve bought the card, you’ve bought the present, but how are you going to make sure that Valentine’s Day really goes with a swing?
The answer could lie with oysters, a food that has been linked with love for thousands of years.
The word "aphrodisiac" was born when Aphrodite, the Greed goddess of love, sprang forth from the sea on an oyster shell and promptly gave birth to Eros.
Because Aphrodite was said to be born from the sea, many types of seafood have reputations as aphrodisiacs.
It is further noted that some believe oysters gained their reputation at a time when their contribution of zinc to the nutritionally deficient diets of the day could improve overall health and therefore lead to an increased sex drive.
But how do you go about opening up an oyster, a skill known as ‘shucking’?
This video, filmed off the west coast of Sweden, shows you how.
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