Consider The Oyster by M.F.K. Fisher

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    • Categories: Stews & one-pot meals; Main course
    • Ingredients: oysters; oyster liquor; heavy cream; celery salt
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  • ISBN 10 1911547275
  • ISBN 13 9781911547273
  • Published Jan 01 2018
  • Format Paperback
  • Page Count 120
  • Language English
  • Countries United Kingdom
  • Publisher Daunt Books

Publishers Text

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 the 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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