Consider the Oyster

Consider the Oyster
Consider the Oyster  
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Author(s) M. F. K. Fisher
Language English
Publication date 1941
Media type Print
ISBN 0865473358

Consider the Oyster is a book by M. F. K. Fisher that deals in the history, preparation and eating of oysters. The work was first published in the United States in 1941 and has been in print ever since. Thin, poetical, and whimsical, it is, perhaps, the most famous book about oysters ever written[citation needed].

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