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

The Essential Oyster: A Salty Appreciation of Taste and Temptation

Autor Rowan Jacobsen
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 30 noi 2016

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

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781632862563
ISBN-10: 1632862565
Pagini: 304
Ilustrații: 4-color illustrations throughout
Dimensiuni: 193 x 236 x 25 mm
Greutate: 1.09 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Caracteristici

Award-winning and critically acclaimed writer:A Geography of Oysterswon the James Beard Award and was a finalist for the International Association of Cookbook Professionals Book of the Year. It was also one of Amazon.com's Best Food Books of the Year.Apples of Uncommon Characterwas named to the Best Books of 2014 lists by theWashington Post, Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe,NPR, and others.

Notă biografică

Rowan Jacobsenis the James Beard Award-winning author ofA Geography of Oysters,Fruitless Fall,The Living Shore, andAmerican Terroir. He has written for theNew York Times,Harper's,Outside,Mother Jones,Orion, and others, and his work has been anthologized inThe Best American Science and Nature WritingandBest Food Writingcollections. Whether visiting endangered oystermen in Louisiana or cacao-gathering tribes in the Bolivian Amazon, his subject is how to maintain a sense of place in a world of increasing placelessness. He lives in rural Vermont.

Recenzii

A gastronomic inventory of America's oysters, meticulously distinguishing among the dozens of varieties that diners encounter . . . Jacobsen manages to illustrate the unique appearance, occurrence, shapes, colors, scents, and flavors of oysters hailing from each separate reef bordering American shores. He realizes all this through his exceptional command of language and his ability to resonate with the human passions of the oystermen he meets on his journeys from the Gulf of Maine to the Gulf of Mexico to Puget Sound. A remarkable, essential addition to any food collection.
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 Oysteris a rare pearl.
From dedicated oyster aficionado Rowan Jacobsen, a book for all the oyster lovers in the world! A wealth of fun and information.
Rowan Jacobsen is one of the best writers reporting on, and thinking about, food today. Period.
[A] verbally and visually succulent book . . . Jacobsen may leave noncoastal readers drooling with jealousy, but vicarious oyster slurping is better than none.
A dazzling book about the best bivalves of our time . . . Rowan Jacobsen is to oysters what a sommelier is to wine--minus the pretense . . . There are more than 300 different oysters in North America, and in Mr. Jacobsen we have an expert guide.
No matter how well you may know a subject, when Rowan Jacobsen writes about it you'll find illuminating and fascinating new information. Luckily for us, oysters are one of his specialties.
Chart[s] the oyster's resounding comeback and provide guidance to diners facing down an embarrassment of bivalves.
You'll find everything you ever wanted to know about oysters in Rowan Jacobsen's new book, 'The Essential Oyster: A Salty Appreciation of Taste and Temptation.'
If you've ever wanted a story to leap off the page of a book, this is that book . . . Rowan Jacobsen, who has written not one, but two acclaimed, encyclopedic books about oysters, the industry and where to find the best ones, is helping that dream come true.
Jacobsen sets the stage for savoring oysters and oyster culture . . . A true shellfish manifesto, celebrating the romance of oysters, the primal rush of slurping a raw denizen of the sea, and guiding readers and eaters alike to shucking stations with a bit of knowledge and the desire to try something new.
[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.
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.
Written in an accessible style by a hard-core ostreaphile,A Geography of Oystersis a fun read, inviting you to join Jacobsen on his quest for an oyster-rich life. Yes, please!
The most gripping aspect of James Beard Award winner Rowan Jacobsen'sApples of Uncommon Characteris the author's loving, quirky, and so-vivid-it's-like-you're-eating-one-right-now descriptions of 123 different apples.