Description
M.F.K. Fisher, whom John Updike has called our poet of the appetites, here pays tribute to that most delicate and enigmatic of foodsthe oyster. As she tells of oysters found in stews, in soups, roasted, baked, fried, prepared à la Rockefeller or au natureland of the pearls sometimes found thereinFisher describes her mothers joy at encountering oyster loaf in a girls dorm in he 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 bivalves 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.
Author: M. F. K. Fisher
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: North Point Press
Published: 10/01/1988
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.2lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.00w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9780865473355
Language: English
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