““Up until the nineteenth century, the oyster was thought to be a simple primitive creature. We like to think this of the creatures we eat, especially the ones we pop into our mouths whole and raw. But it turns out that the oyster has a brain and a nervous system. In the words of the nineteenth-century British Darwinsist Thomas Huxley, ‘I suppose that when the sapid and slippery morsel – which is gone like a flash of gustatory summer lightning – glides along the palate, few people imagine that they are swallowing a piece of machinery (and going machinery) greatly more complicated than a watch.””
![“If you don't love life you can't enjoy an oyster; there is a shock of freshness to it and intimations of the ages of man, some piercing intuition of the sea and all its weeds and breezes. [They] shiver you for a split second.” quote by Eleanor Clark](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c6a/eleanor-clark-30764_age_if-you-don-t-love-life-you-can-t-enjoy-a_1276282.jpg)
