Consider the Oyster

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Consider the Oyster
Authors and Contributors      By (author) M. F. K. Fisher
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:112
Category/GenreLiterary essays
Cookery, food and drink
Cooking with fish and seafood
Travel writing
ISBN/Barcode 9781911547273
ClassificationsDewey:641.694
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Daunt Books
Imprint Daunt Books
Publication Date 15 November 2018
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

The celebrated American food writer M.F.K. Fisher pays tribute to that most delicate and enigmatic of foods: the oyster. She tells of oysters found in stews and soups, roasted, baked, fried, prepared a la Rockefeller or au naturel - and of the pearls sometimes found therein. As she describes each dish, Fisher 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.

Author Biography

Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher (1908-1992) was one of the greatest American food writers of the twentieth century. She is the author of 27 books of food, memoir, and travel, many of which have become classics. Her books include Serve it Forth, Gastronomical Me, How to Cook a Wolf, With Bold Knife and Fork, and a recently rediscovered novel, The Theoretical Foot.