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 ex…
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- ISBN: 978-0-86547-335-5
- EAN: 9780865473355
- Produktnummer: 9108137
- Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1988
- Seitenangabe: 88 S.
- Masse: H20.3 cm x B12.7 cm x D0.5 cm 105 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 105
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