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The Big Oyster History on the Half Shell

Name: The Big Oyster History on the Half Shell
Brand: Random House Publishing Group
SKU: LIB RHPG 9780345476395
Price: 18.0 USD
Availability: InStock

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Product Description

Filled with cultural, historical, and culinary insight–along with historic recipes, maps, drawings, and photos–this dynamic narrative sweeps readers from the seventeenth-century founding of New York to the death of its oyster beds and the rise of America’s environmentalist movement, from the oyster cellars of the rough-and-tumble Five Points slums to Manhattan’s Gilded Age dining chambers. With The Big Oyster, Mark Kurlansky serves up history at its most engrossing, entertaining, and delicious.

8" L x 5.2" W

Paperback

336 Pages

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