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North Point Press
October 1988
On Sale: October 1, 1988
96 pages
ISBN: 0865473358
EAN: 9780865473355
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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.
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