by Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher
An oyster leads a dreadful but exciting life. Indeed, his chance to live at all is slim, and if he should survive the arrows of his own outrageous fortune and in the two weeks of his carefree youth find a clean smooth place to fix on, the years afterwards are full of stress, passion and danger.
"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)
Consider the Oyster demands, like a poem, to be reread immediately on finishing it. It's filled with recipes so direct and concrete, you can taste them as you read, along with arresting images — a chilly, delicate gray body sliding down a red throat. This book packs a wallop in a small amount of space, satisfies without satiating and goes down easily, pithy and nutritious and sweetly briny. Kate Christensen (read more)
Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher (1908-1992) is the author of numerous books of essays and reminiscences, many of which have become American classics. "Poet of the appetites." (John Updike) "I do not know of any one in the United States who writes better prose." (W.H. Auden) "M.F.K. Fisher is our greatest food writer because she puts food in the mount, the mind and the imagination all at the same time. Beyond the gastronomical bravura, she is a passionate woman; food is her metaphor." (Shana Alexander)
Paperback: 96 pages
Publisher: North Point Press (October 1, 1988)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0865473358
ISBN-13: 978-0865473355
Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 4.9 x 0.3 inches
