WAIE (whatamieating.com)


This is the searchable online international food dictionary with 67,413 terms in 307 languages plus 42,027 plurals.

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Description: Claires are special pens or enclosures where oysters are fattened in salt marshes in Marennes in Poitou-Charentes. With the Spring tides the estuarine waters flood into the pens and then recede. The water left behind becomes rich in blue-green algae which gives a slightly greenish tinge to the oysters grown threre. The resulting oysters, themselves called Claires, are considered a delicacy.