Ebook {Epub PDF} Consider the Oyster by M.F.K. Fisher

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.4/5(5).  · Excerpt: 'Consider the Oyster' M.F.K. Fisher's masterpiece is short enough to be enjoyed in a single summer afternoon, yet vivid enough to Author: MFK Fisher. ‘An oyster leads a dreadful but exciting life.’ 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 à la Rockefeller or au naturel – .

Excerpt: 'Consider the Oyster' M.F.K. Fisher's masterpiece is short enough to be enjoyed in a single summer afternoon, yet vivid enough to leave you longing for oysters and white wine long afterward. Get this from a library! Consider the oyster. [M F K Fisher] -- 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. Consider the oyster Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. Share to Twitter. Share to Facebook. Share to Reddit. Consider the oyster by Fisher, M. F. K. (Mary Frances Kennedy), Publication date Topics Cookery (Oysters), Gastronomy, Oysters Publisher.

Fisher wrote this book in , while her second husband, the love of her life, Dillwyn Parrish, was suffering from Buerger's disease, a rare autoimmune response to smoking; the phantom pain from. 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. 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.