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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.
Ebook Consider the Oyster M F K Fisher 9780865473355 Books
"Great read. Great for oyster buffs"
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Consider the Oyster M F K Fisher 9780865473355 Books Reviews
- With wit and billowy prose, MFK Fischer drops the reader into the magic world of the oyster. From cozy British pubs to east coast seaside shucks or a loaf she never quite ate, but nevertheless remembers well, the stories are filled in with smattering of recipes consisting of mostly butter and oysters. If you're not looking for oyster houses by chapter two, I'll eat my hat.
- if you ever wanted to know the providence of the oyster!
a little sad to learn the history of how humankind continues to pollute the waters - MFK Fisher has a beautiful writing style along with a wry wit and deep insight regarding any subject she takes on. Consider the Oyster is much more than a 'cookbook', although there are a number of oyster recipes within it's covers and less than a 'history' of the oyster, although there is a great deal of factual information about this bivalve in the book. It is truly a memoir of "gourmandise" and a slim but delightful book. Highly recommended
- Reading M.F.K Fisher is like savoring an oyster cool, delicious, deeply gratifying!
- Written well before I was born. Well before I had my first oyster. Well before the food network. It's a very bright and cheerful read. Funny, witty, quirky. A little history, a little fact, a few recipes. Needs to be sold in every seafood shope from Newfoundland to Virginia.
- The second book by this prolific and influential author, it tells with wit, poetry, and precision the story from birth to table of an amazing food. "Consider the Oyster" is a short, flavor enhancing read and a magnificent introduction to a writer several newer generations could benefit from. Although others have been incorrectly credited with creating a food-specific tomb, this was the first of its kind.
- Great read. Great for oyster buffs
- I stumbled across this book recently as it was time to look up MFK again. She never ever disappoints as she educates and entertains all along. What a treasure. Not an oyster fan...shhh..
I will reconsider just because.
