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We're taking you on a different kind of farm tour this week. An oyster farm tour on the Atlantic ocean with Island Creek Oysters. How do you actually grow oysters? How long does it take before they're ready to harvest? What are the qualities of the perfect oyster? And the age-old question - how do you shuck the damn things? Watch the videos below to learn how small microscopic seeds turn into the briny, beautiful mollusks we love to eat. And learn some creative recipes for oysters from some of Boston's top chefs.

Chef Tony Maws from Craigie on Main

Chef Jamie Bissonnette from Toro

Chef Jeremy Sewall from Eastern Standard

Velouté of Oysters & Lovage

Oysters Escabeche

Oysters with Spicy Mignonette Sauce

You think cooking in the kitchen can be difficult? Try doing it on rocky seas, aboard the Nathaniel Bowditch, a Windjammer Schooner from Rockland, Maine. We visited Chef Paul Dorr in the galley of the boat when he and his crew were docked in Boston for the Tall Ships event. What we experienced was one happy chef who is able to work wonders with an old kerosene cast iron stove and a little ingenuity. This dessert is the go-to dessert he loves because it's quick and a crowd pleaser.

Chef Paul Dorr	Chocolate Pudding Cake

THIS WEEKEND DON'T MISS THE BOSTON FIREFIGHTERS BURN FOUNDATION FIREFIGHTER COOK-OFF!

SATURDAY, JULY 18, 2009 4:00PM - 8:00PM FENWAY PARK Come to the Boston Firefighters Burn Foundation Firefighter Cook-Off at Fenway Park on July 18, 2009. how2heroes and AGAR are proud to be sponsors of this event and we will be there cheering on the 20 teams and championing their important cause. We hope to see you there! BUY YOUR TICKETS NOW!

Grilling Sweepstakes Winners Announced! Congratulations to the winners of the how2heroes Grilling Essentials Sweepstakes. Yolanda Morrow of Salisbury, NC, was the grand prize winner and received a Weber grill, a "25 Essentials: Techniques for Grilling" cookbook by grillmaster Ardie Davis, Kentuckyaki sauce from Bourbon Barrel Foods and a how2heroes apron. 20 additional winners won the grilling book and a bottle of Kentuckyaki sauce. For the full list of winners, click here.