Consider the Oyster
$26.54
- Paperback
96 pages
- Release Date
3 November 2026
Summary
A deep dive into the culinary, literary, and underwater lives of that most noble and inscrutable bivalve, the oyster.
In Consider the Oyster, M.F.K. Fisher explores the many lives of the mysterious oyster–from its strange cloistered existence in the watery depths to the many roles it has played in our culinary history as table fare both humble and refined. In this canonical study of one of the ocean’s most intriguing inhabitants, Fisher combines folklore, fam…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781250457813 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1250457815 |
| Author: | M.F.K. Fisher, Anne Fadiman |
| Publisher: | St Martin's Press |
| Imprint: | St Martin's Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 96 |
| Release Date: | 3 November 2026 |
| Weight: | 91g |
| Dimensions: | 13mm x 135mm x 206mm |
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Critics Review
“In M.F.K. Fisher memory and word are joined incomparably.”
–James Beard
“The greatest food writer who has ever lived.”
–Simon Schama, Financial Times
“In a properly run culture, Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher would be recognized as one of the great writers this country has produced in this century.”
–Raymond Sokolov, The New York Times Book Review
“M.F.K. Fisher is as talented a writer as she is a cook. Indeed, I do not know of anyone in the United States today who writes better prose.”
–W.H. Auden
“Since Lewis Carroll no one had written charmingly about that indecisively sexed bivalve until Mrs. Fisher came along with her Consider the Oyster. Surely this will stand for some time as the most judicious treatment in English.”
–Clifton Fadiman
M.F.K. Fisher
M.F.K. Fisher (1908-1992) is the author of sixteen books of essays and reminiscences, many of which have become American classics. Her books include The Gastronomical Me and How to Cook a Wolf. In 1991, she was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.
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