For at least 164,000 years, oysters have been part of the human diet, but people have been finding pearls in oysters for much ...

The most popular origin story for pearls goes something like this: A grain of sand gets stuck in an oyster and eventually becomes a pearl. While this isn’t wrong, it’s definitely an ...

I took on one of the most iconic fine-dining dishes ever created – Thomas Keller’s Oysters and Pearls. In this video, I walk ...

The Lobster Trap line cook Brandt Crabbe estimates he shucks about 75,000-100,000 oysters a year, and in seven years of shucking, he has found nearly 15 pearls hidden inside ranging in shape and ...

Oysters are the main producers of pearls, but clams and mussels can also create them. Pearls form when oysters secrete layers of nacre around irritants. There are natural and cultured pearls ...

Instead, pearls are formed when an irritant, such as a food particle or a parasite, slips between the shells of an oyster or other mollusk and lodges into its mantle, the muscular wall where its ...