If done right, shucking an oyster can look suave, sexy even. With a petite knife and twist of the wrist, the cemented-shut bivalve springs open. If done wrong, you risk splintering bits of shell into ...

— -- If Champagne is the drink of choice on New Year's Eve, oysters are the meal. "They're celebratory and light," says Erin Byers Murray, author of Shucked: Life on a New England Oyster Farm (St ...