Oysters Demystified How to cook, eat, and love oysters Oysters are hard for some people to love. But what’s not to love about a soft-bodied invertebrate surrounded by two calcareous valves joined together by a resilient ligament? “[A]n oyster, like a lover, first captures you by bewitching your mind,” writes Rowan Jacobsen in his book A Geography of Oysters. So maybe some of our favorite stories, recipes, and videos about oysters will, if not bewitch, at least charm.   STORIES