S2 Ep 38 - Nuno Mendes and Bobby Groves talk oysters
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Bobby Groves was born and bred in Malden, and has been passionate about seafood since he was old enough to work. Now, he is Nuno Mendes' head oyster shucker at Chiltern Firehouse.
To write his book, Oyster Isles: A Journey Through Britain and Ireland's Oysters, Bobby visited suppliers around the UK and Ireland, taking a 5,000 mile tour of the isles - including Jersey, Guernsey, and Herm - on a Triumph motorcycle, giving him an in-depth knowledge of each of the oyster farms he visited.
Adamant that he would gather his information first-hand, he said that had he done so from the comfort of his own home, "I would have felt like I cheated the reader."
"There's only so much you can gleam from the Internet when Googling: 'what does Northumberland's coast look like?' You have to go and be there."
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Bobby Groves was born and bred in Malden, and has been passionate about seafood since he was old enough to work. Now, he is Nuno Mendes' head oyster shucker at Chiltern Firehouse.
To write his book, Oyster Isles: A Journey Through Britain and Ireland's Oysters, Bobby visited suppliers around the UK and Ireland, taking a 5,000 mile tour of the isles - including Jersey, Guernsey, and Herm - on a Triumph motorcycle, giving him an in-depth knowledge of each of the oyster farms he visited.
Adamant that he would gather his information first-hand, he said that had he done so from the comfort of his own home, "I would have felt like I cheated the reader."
"There's only so much you can gleam from the Internet when Googling: 'what does Northumberland's coast look like?' You have to go and be there."
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