{"id":1385,"date":"2012-02-10T12:10:46","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T20:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/2012\/02\/pop-up-oyster-bar.html"},"modified":"2024-12-05T08:49:10","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T16:49:10","slug":"pop-up-oyster-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/2012\/02\/pop-up-oyster-bar\/","title":{"rendered":"Pop-Up Oyster Bar!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/files\/IMG_0077.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_0077.jpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/files\/2012\/02\/IMG_0077-thumb-300x335-2620.jpeg\" width=\"300\" height=\"335\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left;margin: 0 20px 20px 0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jon Rowley &#8217;69 rousted ten dozen Totten Inlet oysters out of bed in Olympia to bring to Reed&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reed.edu\/reed_magazine\/sallyportal\/posts\/2012\/welcome-to-the-working-weekend.html\">Working Weekend<\/a>,&#8221; February 3-5. This &#8220;pop-up oyster bar&#8221; appeared in the library lobby late afternoon on Saturday and was met with much enthusiasm.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jon is a marketing consultant for Taylor Shellfish Farms, and while on campus he met Lillian Kuehl &#8217;09, lab manager at Taylor Shellfish, for the first time. &#8220;I had heard about this Reed student that worked at the Taylor hatchery but had never met her, so it was fun to work our pop-up oyster bar with her.&#8221; &nbsp;Soon enough, David Autrey &#8217;89 and Amy Wesselman &#8217;91 happened along with some of their Westrey wine to serve as a perfect complement for the marine feast.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/files\/oyster_shells.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"oyster_shells.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/files\/2012\/02\/oyster_shells-thumb-200x132-2624.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"132\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right;margin: 0 0 20px 20px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Pleased that the impromptu oyster tasting was well received, Jon later commented that it &#8220;turned out to be a perfect little adjunct to Working Weekend, an example of how there is always room, with a little entrepenurial spirit, for a good idea.&#8221; Also, he was tickled that a good number of students had their first oyster that day. His old friend Hannah Fishman &#8217;14 lent a hand, learning the art of shucking for the first time.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See photos of the lovely Totten Inlet Virginicas and Shigoku oysters, and their fans, on his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98857801@N00\/sets\/72157629195210987\/\">Flickr<\/a> page.<\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Rowley &apos;69 rousted ten dozen Totten Inlet oysters out of bed in Olympia to bring to Reed&apos;s &quot;Working Weekend,&quot; February 3-5. This &quot;pop-up oyster bar&quot; appeared in the library lobby late afternoon on Saturday and was met with much&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumnievents","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3111,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385\/revisions\/3111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}