Name: Consider the Oyster
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Author: Fisher, M. F. K.
ISBN: 9780865473355

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Author

M. F. K. Fisher

Publisher

North Point Press

Year

1988

Language

English

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Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.8 x 12.7 x 0.8 cm

Weight

0.09 kg.

ISBN

0865473358

ISBN13

9780865473355

Synopsis "Consider the Oyster "

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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