The world’s speediest oyster shucker has a long-standing love of bivalves and whisky.
The proprietor of Toronto’s Ceili Cottage and Guinness World Record holder for the most oysters opened in a minute—39—Patrick McMurray was still developing his shucking skills when he asked whisky writer Michael Jackson to autograph one of his books. On learning that McMurray worked in an oyster bar, Jackson appended his signature with some good advice: “Have Oban whisky with oysters.”
“That’s what first got me thinking about whisky and oysters,” says McMurray. Many years later, when the shucker visited Scotland’s Isle of Skye , he followed...
