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For 140 Years, P&J Oyster Company Has Sold 'The Caviar Of Molluscan Shellfish'

WWNO - New Orleans Public Radio | By Thomas Walsh,
Mark Cave
Published June 1, 2016 at 6:00 AM EDT
Oystermen at work on Lake Borgne in 1973.
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Oystermen at work on Lake Borgne in 1973.

Despite what your parents may have told you about eating oysters in the summer, it’s perfectly fine to do that. That’s from the lips of Alfred Sunseri, whose family has run the P&J Oyster Company since 1876. He knows a thing or two about the business and shares his family's triumphs and their frustrations in this interview with The Historic New Orleans Collection's oral historian, Mark Cave. 

Alfred Sunseri's interview with Mark Cave.

The Sunseris’ help supply The New Orleans Oyster Festival, which takes place the first weekend of June at Woldenberg Park in downtown New Orleans. This oral history interview was conducted by Mark Cave for the Historic New Orleans Collection and produced for WWNO by Thomas Walsh. 

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Thomas Walsh
Thomas Walsh is an independent radio producer for WWNO. Each week he works to produce new editions of Louisiana Eats and All Things New Orleans, as well as Notes From New Orleans, The Farmer's Market Minute, and The Green Minute. Outside WWNO, Thomas is a volunteer disc jockey for WTUL, where he hosts a weekly live four-hour program broadcasting twentieth century classical music. Thomas has four years experience in audio engineering, and a BA from Trinity University in San Antonio where he double majored in communications and philosophy. Someday he will give away his entire collection of Grateful Dead concerts, which has swelled to unnecessary proportions in recent years.
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