It's a fantastic Bloody Mary: briny with caper juice, the vodka pressure-infused with horseradish in a cream whipper using nitrous oxide.
I've waited in line, fuelled with Anchor Steam beer, for a seat at the marble counter at Swan Oyster Depot, for its Dungeness crab, smoked salmon and, of course, briny bivalves.
Millions of hectares of coastal wetlands, including mangroves, have been cleared to make room for shrimp ponds excavated a meter deep into the wetland substrate then filled with briny water and shrimp.
It has a pleasant, briny crunch and a vinegar tang.
Or perhaps a social revolution".The teardrop-shaped Crassostrea virginica thrive on America's east coast, and can appear in guises as diverse as the small, intensely briny Malpeque, from Prince Edward Island, to the large and sweetly bland Apalachicola, from Florida.
Israeli and Jordanian factories also use the water to recover potash.So fast are the Dead Sea's briny waters shrinking that it has already shed its southern half.
All of it is growing alarmingly acidic, as the carbon dioxide spewed out by modern activities finds its way into the briny.
His plan for fishing the company out of the freezing briny rests largely on making smartphones that use Microsoft's Windows operating system and getting them to market quickly.
