Ebook: Consider the Oyster
Author: Fisher M F K
- Tags: Cooking (Oysters), Gastronomy, Oysters
- Year: 2016
- Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
- Language: English
- epub
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...
"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...
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