Tamar Haspel is a journalist who's been on the food and science beat for the best part of two decades. She writes the James Beard award-winning Washington Post column, Unearthed, and contributes to National Geographic, Discover, and other media. She and her husband, Kevin Flaherty, also have an oyster farm, Barnstable Oyster, where they grow about 200,000 oysters a year in the beautiful waters off Cape Cod.