Oysters

Author : Rowan Jacobsen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-09
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781596918146

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A Geography of Oysters by Rowan Jacobsen Pdf

In this passionate, playful, and indispensable guide, oyster aficionado Rowan Jacobsen takes readers on a delectable tour of the oysters of North America. Region by region, he describes each oyster's appearance, flavor, origin, and availability, as well as explaining how oysters grow, how to shuck them without losing a finger, how to pair them with wine (not to mention beer), and why they're one of the few farmed seafoods that are good for the earth as well as good for you. Packed with fabulous recipes, maps, and photos, plus lists of top oyster restaurants, producers, and festivals, A Geography of Oysters is both delightful reading and the guide that oyster lovers of all kinds have been waiting for.

Author : Cynthia Nims
Publisher : Sasquatch Books
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-05
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781632175250

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Oysters by Cynthia Nims Pdf

For oyster lovers everywhere, this luscious cookbook features recipes, shucking instructions, and the local farming success story of the many delicious oysters from the Pacific Coast. From Hangtown Hash with Fried Eggs to Half-Shell Oysters with Kimchi-Cucumber Relish, this gorgeous cookbook features 30 recipes, ideas for what to drink with oysters, and tips for buying, storing, and shucking to bring out the “oh!” in oysters. Since oysters are grown and harvested in some of the most beautiful environments on earth, the book is brimming with scenic as well as food photography. The delectable oysters grown along the West Coast—which include Pacific, Kumamoto, Olympia, and Eastern and European Flat species--are the stars of this beautiful cookbook celebrating oysters.

Author : Mark Kurlansky
Publisher : Random House
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007-01-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781588365910

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The Big Oyster by Mark Kurlansky Pdf

Before New York City was the Big Apple, it could have been called the Big Oyster. Now award-winning author Mark Kurlansky tells the remarkable story of New York by following the trajectory of one of its most fascinating inhabitants–the oyster, whose influence on the great metropolis remains unparalleled. For centuries New York was famous for its oysters, which until the early 1900s played such a dominant a role in the city’s economy, gastronomy, and ecology that the abundant bivalves were Gotham’s most celebrated export, a staple food for the wealthy, the poor, and tourists alike, and the primary natural defense against pollution for the city’s congested waterways. Filled with cultural, historical, and culinary insight–along with historic recipes, maps, drawings, and photos–this dynamic narrative sweeps readers from the island hunting ground of the Lenape Indians to the death of the oyster beds and the rise of America’s environmentalist movement, from the oyster cellars of the rough-and-tumble Five Points slums to Manhattan’s Gilded Age dining chambers. Kurlansky brings characters vividly to life while recounting dramatic incidents that changed the course of New York history. Here are the stories behind Peter Stuyvesant’s peg leg and Robert Fulton’s “Folly”; the oyster merchant and pioneering African American leader Thomas Downing; the birth of the business lunch at Delmonico’s; early feminist Fanny Fern, one of the highest-paid newspaper writers in the city; even “Diamond” Jim Brady, who we discover was not the gourmand of popular legend. With The Big Oyster, Mark Kurlansky serves up history at its most engrossing, entertaining, and delicious.

Author : Margaret Webb
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-03
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780143052906

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Apples To Oysters by Margaret Webb Pdf

On this cross-Canada odyssey, Margaret Webb introduces readers to great farmers in every province or, as she calls them, chefs of the soil and the sea, tractor-seat philosophers, or poet biologists. Her stories of the challenges they face growing good food are inspiring, touching, gritty. They will make you hungry. They will make you laugh. These fascinating stories about the passionate, driven people who farm and produce food in our country make for a powerful manifesto for eating Canadian.

Author : Brian Leicester Bayne
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 860 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780128035009

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Biology of Oysters by Brian Leicester Bayne Pdf

Biology of Oysters offers scientific insights into the structure and function of oysters. Written by an expert in the field of shellfish research, this book presents more than 50 years of empirical research literature. It provides an understanding of the edible oysters, in order to equip students and researchers with the background needed to undertake further investigations on this model marine invertebrate. Presents empirical research findings in context with the relevant theory and its expression in computer models Includes information on studies of other bivalve species such as mussels and clams Offers a description of the whole organism to provide a frame of reference for further research Includes research developments in the phylogeny, physiology and ecology of oysters

Author : William Keith Brooks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Oyster-culture
ISBN : HARVARD:32044106218183

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The Oyster by William Keith Brooks Pdf

Author : Rowan Jacobsen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781632862570

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The Essential Oyster by Rowan Jacobsen Pdf

From Rowan Jacobsen, America's go-to expert, the author of the trailblazing A Geography of Oysters, comes the ultimate oyster guide--a gorgeous, full-color, must-have book. A decade ago, Rowan Jacobsen wrote a book called A Geography of Oysters that celebrated the romance of oysters, the primal rush of slurping a raw denizen of the sea, and the mysteries of molluscan terroir. The book struck a chord, and American oyster culture has been on a gravity-defying trajectory ever since. With lavish four-color photos throughout by renowned photographer David Malosh, The Essential Oyster is the definitive book for oyster-lovers everywhere, featuring stunning portraits, tasting notes, and backstories of all the top oysters, as well as recipes from America's top oyster chefs and a guide to the best oyster bars. Spotlighting more than a hundred of North America's greatest oysters--the unique, the historically significant, the flat-out yummiest--The Essential Oyster introduces the oyster culture and history of every region of North America, as well as overseas. There is no coastline from British Columbia to Baja, from New Iberia to New Brunswick, that isn't producing great oysters. For the most part, these are deeper cupped, stronger shelled, finer flavored, and more stylish than their predecessors. Some have colorful stories to tell. Some have quirks. All have character. The Essential Oyster will help you find the best, and help you to cherish them better. That is what's captured--and celebrated--in these pages.

Author : Erin Byers Murray
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781429989091

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Shucked by Erin Byers Murray Pdf

Bill Buford's Heat meets Phoebe Damrosch's Service Included in this unique blend of personal narrative, food miscellany, and history In March of 2009, Erin Byers Murray ditched her pampered city girl lifestyle and convinced the rowdy and mostly male crew at Island Creek Oysters in Duxbury, Massachusetts, to let a completely unprepared, aquaculture-illiterate food and lifestyle writer work for them for a year to learn the business of oysters. The result is Shucked—part love letter, part memoir and part documentary about the world's most beloved bivalves. Providing an in-depth look at the work that goes into getting oysters from farm to table, Shucked shows Erin's fullcircle journey through the modern day oyster farming process and tells a dynamic story about the people who grow our food, and the cutting-edge community of weathered New England oyster farmers who are defying convention and looking ahead. The narrative also interweaves Erin's personal story—the tale of how a technology-obsessed workaholic learns to slow life down a little bit and starts to enjoy getting her hands dirty (and cold). This is a book for oyster lovers everywhere, but also a great read for locavores and foodies in general.

Author : Bradley E. Ensor
Publisher : Anthropological Papers
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816541089

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Oysters in the Land of Cacao by Bradley E. Ensor Pdf

Oysters in the Land of Cacao delivers a long-overdue presentation of the archaeology, material culture, and regional synthesis on the Formative to Late Classic period societies of the western Chontalpa region (Tabasco, Mexico) through contemporary theory. It offers a significant new understanding of the Mesoamerican Gulf Coast.

Author : M. F. K. Fisher
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-21
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781787201262

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Consider the Oyster by M. F. K. Fisher Pdf

M. F. K. Fisher, whom John Updike has called our “poet of the appetites,” here pays tribute to that most enigmatic of ocean creatures, 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 the 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 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. “Consider the Oyster marks M. F. K. Fisher’s emergence as a storyteller so confident that she can maneuver a reader through a narrative in which recipes enhance instead of interrupt the reader’s attention to the tales. She approaches a recipe as a published dream or wish, and the stories she tells here...are also stories of the pleasures and disillusionments of dreams fulfilled.”—PATRICIA STORACE, The New York Review of Books “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.”—CLIFFTON FADIMAN

Author : Mark Doty
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2002-07-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780807066102

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Still Life with Oysters and Lemon by Mark Doty Pdf

Mark Doty's prose has been hailed as "tempered and tough, sorrowing and serene" (The New York Times Book Review) and "achingly beautiful" (The Boston Globe). In Still Life with Oysters and Lemon he offers a stunning exploration of our attachment to ordinary things-how we invest objects with human store, and why.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Merchant Marine and Fisheries
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110645723

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Regulations on Raw Shucked Oysters by United States. Congress. House. Merchant Marine and Fisheries Pdf

Author : Rose G. Kerr,Jean Burtis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Cooking (Oysters)
ISBN : MINN:31951T00430326Z

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How to Cook Oysters by Rose G. Kerr,Jean Burtis Pdf

Author : Henry Frank Moore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : Cooking (Shellfish)
ISBN : WISC:89053017968

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Oysters: the Food that Has Not "gone Up" by Henry Frank Moore Pdf

Author : Jeremy Sewall,Marion Lear Swaybill
Publisher : WW Norton
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-28
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780789260758

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Oysters: A Celebration in the Raw by Jeremy Sewall,Marion Lear Swaybill Pdf

For centuries, oysters have had the power to sustain and delight, inspiring writers and artists, lowly cooks and four-star chefs, laborers and gourmands, and everyone in between. A feast for the eyes and the palate oysters also are rich in history and lore. In Oysters: A Celebration in the Raw, Marion Lear Swaybill presents a wide-ranging visual exploration of this iconic shellfish, including stunning portraits of more than fifty oyster varietals, the latest photographs from some of the country’s most renowned and beautiful oyster farms, and notable illustrations of oysters in the arts and culture, all alongside a lively and informative text. Acclaimed chef and restaurateur Jeremy Sewall provides personal insights, drawing on his New England lineage and his stature in the forefront of the current oyster revival. Oysters: A Celebration in the Raw is true to its title from start to finish. Chapter One is a primer on all things oyster. Chapter Two introduces readers to legendary oystermen and women from around the country. Chapter Three offers exquisite photographs of more than fifty varieties of North American oysters, along with flavor profiles and ”merroir.” Oysters: A Celebration in the Raw concludes with highlights from the oyster timeline, depictions of oysters in art through the ages and stories of oysters as aphrodisiacs, and parses oyster myths and metaphors. The book also features an oyster glossary and resource list. It is the only book of its kind—a definitive visual companion to this iconic, much loved mollusk. Overflowing with gorgeous original photography and fascinating anecdotes, Oysters: A Celebration in the Raw is the perfect book for oyster aficionados and newbies, foodies and chefs of all stripes, lovers of photography and art, the environment, history, and the sea.