“Coming in hot!” shouted David, navigating a pathway through the chairs to the oyster-shucking station. Roasting oysters, I discovered, was a craft David, the host, had learned in his childhood days from his father when they lived in Wilmington, North Carolina, and then rediscovered in his adult years when he moved to a house with the “perfect” fire pit in the suburbs of Richmond. He quickly reclaimed this family tradition from his childhood and made a habit of sharing it with others.