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Consider the Oyster
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ISBN10: 0865473358
ISBN13: 9780865473355
Publisher: North Point Press
Published: Oct 1 1988
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.20
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.80
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780865473355
Publisher: North Point Press
Published: Oct 1 1988
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.20
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.80
Language: English
M.F.K. Fisher, whom John Updike has called our poet of the appetites, here pays tribute to that most delicate and enigmatic of foods---the oyster. As she tells of oysters found in stews, in soups, roasted, baked, fried, prepared à la Rockefeller or au naturel--and of the pearls sometimes found therein--Fisher describes her mother's joy at encountering oyster loaf in a girls' dorm in he 1890's, recalls her own initiation into the strange cold succulence of raw oysters as a young woman in Marseille and Dijon, and explores both the bivalve's famed aphrodisiac properties and its equally notorious gut-wrenching powers. Plumbing the dreadful but exciting life of the oyster, Fisher invites readers to share in the comforts and delights that this delicate edible evokes, and enchants us along the way with her characteristically wise and witty prose.
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