*The biggest - and best! - culinary surprise today happened when I walked into Eataly. I had actually just walked in to use the bathrooms, but then I noticed they had some tables set up for their Earth Day festivities. Various local vendors were giving out samples: milk, yogurt, cheese, ketchup, bread, salumi, etc. Well...
I noticed a table that was covered with freshly shucked oysters. It turned out that Wellfleet Oysters (from Wellfleet, MA) was giving out free samples of oysters. So, I had one. And then I had another. And then the "shucker" said to try one with their mignonette sauce... And then one with their spicy cocktail sauce... And then I noticed that the waiters were filling up plates with oysters for customers at the "standing tables". Well...
I only ended up having about six of them - others had more - but, boy, were those some amazingly good oysters. And free to boot!