The Essential Oyster : A Salty Appreciation of Taste and Temptation - Rowan Jacobsen

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The Essential Oyster

A Salty Appreciation of Taste and Temptation

By: Rowan Jacobsen

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Hardcover | 26 October 2016 | Edition Number 1

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From America's go-to expert, the author of the trailblazing A Geography of Oysters, 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.

About the Author

Rowan Jacobsen's first book on oysters, A Geography of Oysters, won the James Beard Award in 2007 and helped trigger the oyster mania we now find ourselves in. He is the author of Apples of Uncommon Character, Fruitless Fall, The Living Shore, and American Terroir. He has written for the New York Times, Harper's, Outside, Mother Jones, and others. He maintains the world's two leading web sources on oysters: Oysterguide (for his opinions) and Oysterater (for everybody else's). He lives in Vermont.

Industry Reviews

With oysters looking and tasting completely different in every cove and bay, Rowan Jacobsen guides us through the array of choices with authority, verve, and charm. The Essential Oyster is a rare pearl. -- Mark Kurlansky, author of COD and THE BIG OYSTER

From dedicated oyster aficionado Rowan Jacobsen, a book for all the oyster lovers in the world! A wealth of fun and information. -- Sandy Ingber, Executive Chef, Grand Central Oyster Bar

Rowan Jacobsen is one of the best writers reporting on, and thinking about, food today. Period. -- Michael Ruhlman, author of THE SOUL OF A CHEF and RATIO

One of the most remarkable single-subject books to come along in a while ... Jacobsen covers oysters in exhaustive detail, but with writing so engaging and sprightly that reading about the briny darlings is almost as compulsive as eating them ... There may be no more pleasurable food than a raw oyster, there almost certainly is no better guide. Los Angeles Times on A GEOGRAPHY OF OYSTERS

Written in an accessible style by a hard-core ostreaphile, A Geography of Oysters is a fun read, inviting you to join Jacobsen on his quest for an oyster-rich life. Yes, please! Washington Post on A GEOGRAPHY OF OYSTERS

[H]ere are the Winesap, the Pound Sweet, the Maiden's Blush and Black Twig, rendered in a vivid prose rarely seen outside of the wine list ... For anyone who's willing to get swept up in the grand romance of food, this handsome volume will make for seductive reading. Morning Edition, NPR, on APPLES OF UNCOMMON CHARACTER

The most gripping aspect of James Beard Award winner Rowan Jacobsen's Apples of Uncommon Character is the author's loving, quirky, and so-vivid-it's-like-you're-eating-one-right-now descriptions of 123 different apples. Bon Appetit on APPLES OF UNCOMMON CHARACTER

[A] verbally and visually succulent book... Jacobsen may leave noncoastal readers drooling with jealousy, but vicarious oyster slurping is better than none. Kirkus Reviews

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