Today is the first of our 4-part mini-series on British food, and we're going to talk about something you might not expect to appear in a series on British food: the oyster.

In today's episode we cover:

• Introduction to the mini-series on British food
• Oysters in Roman times (and how Romans were crazy about oysters)
• Oysters as a poor man's food
• How people used to eat oysters (with beer, salt and pepper, and in pies)
• A time when Londoners used to eat 1 oyster per day
• The meal (and scandal) that destroyed the oyster industry
• The future of oysters in Britain

Key vocabulary: Hot off the heels, Culinary, Oysters, Pearl, Fell completely out of favour, Distrusted, Slurping, Sitting, Prospect, Think much (of), Delicacy, Drift, Plucked, Cultivation, Ale, Flat, Drumming up business, Era, Heyday, Slimy, Substitute, Stretch, Banquet, Transpired, Batch, Contaminated, Dignitary, Typhoid, Esteemed, Sewers, Piped, Moguls, Sewage, Bitter, Litigation, Press charges, Amounted to, Nutrients, Award, Testified, Compensation, Clubbed together, Inscribed, Dodgy, Stocks, Depleted, Bolstered, On the off chance, Next in store, Cunning, Albeit, Cult, Allies

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Full transcript and key vocabulary available on the website www.leonardoenglish.com/podcasts/british-food-part-1-oysters

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