Oysters Smoked on the Half Shell

Permit me a moment of hometown chauvinism. The best smoked oysters in the world are served right here on my island summer home: Martha’s Vineyard. More precisely, you find them at the Water Street restaurant in our vintage nineteenth-century whaling village, Edgartown. The Water Street chef has the good sense to start with superlative shellfish from Katama Bay and smoke roast them with nothing more than a pat of sweet butter. The smoky, briny succulent result is barbecue bliss on a half she