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Oyster: A Gastronomic History (with Recipes)

✍️ Smith, Drew
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🏛 Harry N. Abrams 📅 2015 📔 Hardcover ISBN: 9781419719226

📝 Description: Oyster: A Gastronomic History (with Recipes)

Oysters have inspired chefs, painters, and writers alike, have sustained communities financially and ecologically, and have loomed large in legend and history. Using the oyster as the central theme, Smith has organized his book around time periods and geographical locations, looking at the oyster's influence through anecdotes, scientific facts, and a wide array of visuals.

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