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    Good Food

    The Olympia Oyster

    Rowan Jacobsen is the author of The Living Shore: Rediscovering a Lost World .  He traveled with a group of marine scientists to a remote area of British Columbia to study the Olympia oyster.  It is the only oyster variety native to the Pacific coast of North America.  They have since been depleted by pollution and over-harvesting.

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    By Evan Kleiman • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

    Rowan Jacobsen is the author of The Living Shore: Rediscovering a Lost World. He traveled with a group of marine scientists to a remote area of British Columbia to study the Olympia oyster. It is the only oyster variety native to the Pacific coast of North America. They have since been depleted by pollution and over-harvesting. There are intact beds in British Columbia.

    Music Break: Summertime by Fred Schultheiss/or Klaus Wunderlich

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    2 of 9
    Modern Toilet; Asian Dumplings; Gustavo Arellano; Oyster Love
    1. 0:00Market Report
    2. 6:57The Olympia OysterYou’re reading this
    3. 13:51Chicken Pho in the OC
    4. 19:51Modern Toilet
    5. 24:38Breakfast Around the World
    6. 30:02New Mexico Chiles
    7. 37:54Yeast
    8. 43:45The Naked Pint
    9. 51:50Asian Dumplings
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      Evan Kleiman

      host 'Good Food'

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      Jennifer Ferro

      Jennifer Ferro, President, KCRW, Los Angeles

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      Harriet Ells

      Program Director for Talk

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    The full episode

    2 of 9
    Modern Toilet; Asian Dumplings; Gustavo Arellano; Oyster Love
    1. 0:00Market Report
    2. 6:57The Olympia OysterYou’re reading this
    3. 13:51Chicken Pho in the OC
    4. 19:51Modern Toilet
    5. 24:38Breakfast Around the World
    6. 30:02New Mexico Chiles
    7. 37:54Yeast
    8. 43:45The Naked Pint
    9. 51:50Asian Dumplings
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