Darina Allen: Dig into Myrtle’s Beef & Oyster Pie to celebrate Ireland's place in seafood culture
Myrtle’s Beef & Oyster Pie: This delicious pie for autumn evenings may seem very contemporary but it dates back to a time when oysters were so plentiful and inexpensive that they were used to bulk out meat pies – really worth making, the flavour is rich and unctuous.
This week, a celebration of the return of the native Irish Oyster, considered by chefs and aficionados to be most exquisitely deliciously briny oyster.
Only the tiny Olympia (Ostrea lurida) from the Puget Sound on the West Coast of the US comes anywhere close.
