Consider the Oyster
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This is a Featured Preorder* for a book that will be published November 3, 2026.
This is what the publisher tells us about this book:
In Consider the Oyster, M.F.K. Fisher explores the many lives of the mysterious oyster—from its strange cloistered existence in the watery depths to the many roles it has played as table fare both humble and refined in our culinary history. In this canonical study of one of the ocean’s most intriguing inhabitants, Fisher combines folklore, family history, memoir, and recipes to evoke a picture of a most compelling creature.
Whether in describing her own introduction to the “strange cold succulence” of an oyster as a young woman in Marseille and Dijon, or her mother’s delight at encountering oyster loaf in a girls’ dorm in the 1890s, M.F.K. Fisher’s wise, witty prose piques the appetite and rouses the senses to the hidden possibilities of this most beguiling mollusk.
With a new introduction by Anne Fadiman.
Paperback.
This is one of five early M.F.K. Fisher books republished with new covers and new introductions in the fall of 2026. The others are:
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Will be published on November 3, 2026
