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Shuckin’ Sweet: Tenafly Couple Finds Pearl In Closter Restaurant’s Oyster Shuckin’ Sweet: Tenafly Couple Finds Pearl In Closter Restaurant’s Oyster
Shuckin’ Sweet: Tenafly Couple Finds Pearl In Closter Restaurant’s Oyster A Tenafly couple dining at a popular new restaurant in Closter got a surprise from a sweet, petite oyster. Anton and Sheryl Schermer were enjoying an oyster sample at Stern & Bow on Schraalenburgh Road when he “bit down, wasn’t sure what it was and found a small pearl,” owner Russell Stern said. Pearls are extremely rare -- nature’s lottery, you could say. Oyster expert Kevin Joseph has shucked “thousands upon thousands upon thousands” of oysters and never found a pearl, Stern said. It was even more surprising that the pea-sized gem came from a Taylor Kumamoto, a tiny but plump oyste…

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by Jerry DeMarco