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Author | : M. F. K. Fisher |
Publisher | : Pickle Partners Publishing |
Total Pages | : 74 |
Release | : 2016-10-21 |
Genre | : Cooking |
ISBN | : 1787201260 |
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M. F. K. Fisher, whom John Updike has called our “poet of the appetites,” here pays tribute to that most enigmatic of ocean creatures, 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 1890s, 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. “Consider the Oyster marks M. F. K. Fisher’s emergence as a storyteller so confident that she can maneuver a reader through a narrative in which recipes enhance instead of interrupt the reader’s attention to the tales. She approaches a recipe as a published dream or wish, and the stories she tells here...are also stories of the pleasures and disillusionments of dreams fulfilled.”—PATRICIA STORACE, The New York Review of Books “Since Lewis Carroll no one had written charmingly about that indecisively sexed bivalve until Mrs. Fisher came along with her Consider the Oyster. Surely this will stand for some time as the most judicious treatment in English.”—CLIFFTON FADIMAN
Author | : Rowan Jacobsen |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2008-09-16 |
Genre | : Cooking |
ISBN | : 159691548X |
Download A Geography of Oysters Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A playful guide to identifying, serving, and enjoying one of America's most delicious foods describes the various types of oysters available in terms of appearance, origin, availability, and flavor and provides a host of tempting recipes, a color guide, lists of top oyster restaurants and festivals, tips on pairing wine and oysters, and more.
Author | : Patrick McMurray |
Publisher | : Pan Australia |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2007-12-10 |
Genre | : Cooking |
ISBN | : 9780312377366 |
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OYSTERS ARE SEXY. LET’S AGREE ON THAT RIGHT AWAY. But there’s much more to the oyster than simply its legendary power as an aphrodisiac. And that’s what you’ll find inside this charming field guide to oysters by oyster purveyor and champion shucker Patrick McMurray. Rich in history and lore, CONSIDER THE OYSTER weaves together anecdotes from the author’s experiences as a restaurateur and competitive shucker with practical information on everything from opening oysters with finesse (and a minimum of personal injury!) to planning an oyster party, finding the best oyster bars and ordering hard-to-get bivalves on the Internet. You’ll also meet the people who grow and export oysters — from the coast of Ireland to the shores of Cape Cod and everywhere in between — and you’ll find yourself longing to taste some of the more than fifty varieties that McMurray details with loving enthusiasm. Wellfleets, Malpeques, Irish Flats, Fines de Claires, Royal Courtesans... They’re all here, just waiting to be discovered and savored as never before.
Author | : M. F. K. Fisher |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 789 |
Release | : 2004-03-05 |
Genre | : Cooking |
ISBN | : 0764542613 |
Download The Art of Eating Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This contains the author's five most popular books - "Consider the Oyster", "The Gastronomical Me", "Serve it Forth", "How to Cook a Wolf", and "An Alphabet for Gourmets". The volume contains an array of thoughts, memories and recipes.
Author | : Mark Kurlansky |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2007-01-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1588365913 |
Download The Big Oyster Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Before New York City was the Big Apple, it could have been called the Big Oyster. Now award-winning author Mark Kurlansky tells the remarkable story of New York by following the trajectory of one of its most fascinating inhabitants–the oyster, whose influence on the great metropolis remains unparalleled. For centuries New York was famous for its oysters, which until the early 1900s played such a dominant a role in the city’s economy, gastronomy, and ecology that the abundant bivalves were Gotham’s most celebrated export, a staple food for the wealthy, the poor, and tourists alike, and the primary natural defense against pollution for the city’s congested waterways. Filled with cultural, historical, and culinary insight–along with historic recipes, maps, drawings, and photos–this dynamic narrative sweeps readers from the island hunting ground of the Lenape Indians to the death of the oyster beds and the rise of America’s environmentalist movement, from the oyster cellars of the rough-and-tumble Five Points slums to Manhattan’s Gilded Age dining chambers. Kurlansky brings characters vividly to life while recounting dramatic incidents that changed the course of New York history. Here are the stories behind Peter Stuyvesant’s peg leg and Robert Fulton’s “Folly”; the oyster merchant and pioneering African American leader Thomas Downing; the birth of the business lunch at Delmonico’s; early feminist Fanny Fern, one of the highest-paid newspaper writers in the city; even “Diamond” Jim Brady, who we discover was not the gourmand of popular legend. With The Big Oyster, Mark Kurlansky serves up history at its most engrossing, entertaining, and delicious.
Author | : Blanche Brown |
Publisher | : New Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 2020-02-03 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9781934832769 |
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In Blanche Brown's Consider the Oyster, a slimy mollusk becomes the occasion for a rigorous and sensual meditation on humans' toxic enmeshment with the earth's waters.
Author | : Cody Cassidy |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2020-05-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 014313275X |
Download Who Ate the First Oyster? Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Who wore the first pants? Who painted the first masterpiece? Who first rode the horse? Who invented soap? This madcap adventure across ancient history uses everything from modern genetics to archaeology to uncover the geniuses behind these and other world-changing innovations. Who invented the wheel? Who told the first joke? Who drank the first beer? Who was the murderer in the first murder mystery, who was the first surgeon, who sparked the first fire--and most critically, who was the first to brave the slimy, pale oyster? In this book, writer Cody Cassidy digs deep into the latest research to uncover the untold stories of some of these incredible innovators (or participants in lucky accidents). With a sharp sense of humor and boundless enthusiasm for the wonders of our ancient ancestors, Who Ate the First Oyster? profiles the perpetrators of the greatest firsts and catastrophes of prehistory, using the lives of individuals to provide a glimpse into ancient cultures, show how and why these critical developments occurred, and educate us on a period of time that until recently we've known almost nothing about.
Author | : M. F. K. Fisher |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 1989-10-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0865473927 |
Download The Gastronomical Me Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Fisher identifies a variety of human cravings and the means to find nourishment in what is the most intimate of the five volumes in North Point's jacketed paperback series, now complete.
Author | : M. F. K. Fisher |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 1988-10 |
Genre | : Cooking |
ISBN | : 9780865473362 |
Download How to Cook a Wolf Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
First published in 1942 when wartime shortages were at their worst, the ever-popular How to Cook a Wolf, continues to surmount the unavoidable problem of cooking within a budget. Here is a wealth of practical and delicious ways to keep the wolf from the door.
Author | : Susan Cerulean |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 175 |
Release | : 2020-08-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0820357383 |
Download I Have Been Assigned the Single Bird Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Susan Cerulean’s memoir trains a naturalist’s eye and a daughter’s heart on the lingering death of a beloved parent from dementia. At the same time, the book explores an activist’s lifelong search to be of service to the embattled natural world. During the years she cared for her father, Cerulean also volunteered as a steward of wild shorebirds along the Florida coast. Her territory was a tiny island just south of the Apalachicola bridge where she located and protected nesting shorebirds, including least terns and American oystercatchers. I Have Been Assigned the Single Bird weaves together intimate facets of adult caregiving and the consolation of nature, detailing Cerulean’s experiences of tending to both. The natural world is the “sustaining body” into which we are born. In similar ways, we face not only a crisis in numbers of people diagnosed with dementia but also the crisis of the human-caused degradation of the planet itself, a type of cultural dementia. With I Have Been Assigned the Single Bird, Cerulean reminds us of the loving, necessary toil of tending to one place, one bird, one being at a time.