When did that first oyster stop being lunch and become your life's calling? Was there one specific oyster, one moment that turned you from someone who enjoyed oysters into someone who obsessed over them?

Oh, Christina, well, this is one of my favorite questions, and I'm so glad to be with you.

Oysters for me have kind of always what I call been a background prop in my story.

My childhood was filled with coastal adventures and And I had grandparents who sincerely loved teaching us about seafood.

But, you know, as one does, you go through school, get into corporate.

You love going to raw bars because it's just fun to eat oysters, and I absolutely love them.

But I just realized that I needed a bigger hobby in my life.

Environmentally, can you talk about their role as a filter, like filter feeders and why that matters right now? Yes, it's so important.

She began by introducing the concept of merroir, which is the terroir of the sea, a sense of place, explaining how important location is to shaping each oyster's flavor.

So I think that there's no better place to eat an oyster and to talk about them than in Maine.

They're so incredibly wonderful and sundry in flavor.

And we are so lucky with the abundance that we have here.

Does anybody know or want to guess like how many oyster farms we actually have in Maine? 200, that's actually close.

We have over 150.

This is more diversity than any other state in the whole country, let alone North America.

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