The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell
by Mark Kurlansky
List Price:
Our Price: $6.99
You Save: $7.96 (53%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $5.96 (click here)
Category: Book
See more book details and other editions
Book Summary Information
Author: Mark KurlanskyEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-01-09
ISBN: 0345476395
Number of pages: 336
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Product features:
- ISBN13: 9780345476395
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
- Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices
Book Reviews of The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell
Book Review: Seafood from New York? Who new.
Summary: 5 Stars
Pizza's, weiners, and spagehtti, but seafood? Before reading this book I had no idea that anyone (except the indians, and we all know what happened to them)aite anything from the waters around New York. Between the street run off, the overflowing sewers and being well chummed by the remains of mafioso, it was inconceivable that the waters of NY were at one time one of the most productive estuaries (where fresh water mixes with salt water)in the world. But as soon as the New Yorkers realized it, they started in true New York fashion to destroy it. Seemingly as fast as they could. It only took them about 300 hundred years and did not let outbreaks of oyster related cholera and other diseases stop them. It is no wonder that most NY oysters were cooked. Only the brave, ignorant or suicidal would eat a sewage marinated NY oyster raw.
These are only a few of the facinating facts that you can rake out of this interesting book. I found the segments of NY City history facinating too. Read this book then watch Scorsese's Gangs of New York again. It will give you new insight into a period of our nation's largest city.
Cooking, Food & Wine Books
Book Subjects
- Arts & Photography
- Audiobooks on Cassette
- Audiobooks on CD
- Biographies & Memoirs
- Business & Investing
- Children's Books
- Comics & Graphic Novels
- Computers & Internet
- Cooking, Food & Wine
- e-Books
- Engineering
- Entertainment
- Gay & Lesbian
- Health, Mind & Body
- History
- Home & Garden
- Horror
- Law
- Literature & Fiction
- Medicine
- Mystery & Thrillers
- Nonfiction
- Outdoors & Nature
- Parenting & Families
- Professional & Technical
- Reference
- Religion & Spirituality
- Romance
- Science
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Sports
- Teens
- Travel
Most talked about in Garden as if Your Life Depended on It
Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (Substantially Revised)by Lester R. Brown
W. W. Norton & Company; Published: 2008-01-17; Paperback; Book
Best price: $7.00
Price in other shops:
World Made by Hand: A Novelby James Howard Kunstler
Atlantic Monthly Press; Published: 2008-02-11; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $9.49
Price in other shops:
The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shellby Mark Kurlansky
Random House Trade Paperbacks; Published: 2007-01-09; Paperback; Book
Best price: $8.53
Price in other shops:
Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the Worldby Mark Kurlansky
Penguin (Non-Classics); Published: 1998-07-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $7.90
Price in other shops:
Salt: A World Historyby Mark Kurlansky
Penguin (Non-Classics); Published: 2003-01-28; Paperback; Book
Best price: $4.94
Price in other shops:
Apocalypse Chow: How to Eat Well When the Power Goes Outby Jon Robertson
Simon Spotlight Entertainment; Published: 2005-11-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $9.94
Price in other shops:
Similar books summaries and other product reviews
Choice Cuts: A Savory Selection of Food Writing from Around the World and Throughout Historyby Mark Kurlansky
Penguin (Non-Classics); Published: 2004-10-26; Paperback; Book
Best price: $9.24
Price in other shops:
Spice: The History of a Temptationby Jack Turner
Vintage; Published: 2005-08-09; Paperback; Book
Best price: $9.08
Price in other shops:
The Food of a Younger Land: A Portrait of American Food--Before the National Highway System, Before Chain Restaurants, and Before Frozen Food, When the Nation's Food Was Seasonalby Mark Kurlansky
Riverhead Hardcover; Published: 2009-05-14; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $9.35
Price in other shops:
Sex, Death and Oysters: A Half-Shell Lover's World Tourby Robb Walsh
Counterpoint; Published: 2009-12-22; Paperback; Book
Best price: $9.79
Price in other shops:
A Geography of Oysters: The Connoisseur's Guide to Oyster Eating in North Americaby Rowan Jacobsen
Bloomsbury USA; Published: 2008-09-16; Paperback; Book
Best price: $8.97
Price in other shops:
Consider the Oyster: A Shucker's Field Guideby Patrick McMurray
Thomas Dunne Books; Published: 2007-12-10; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $5.99
Price in other shops:
The Basque History of the World: The Story of a Nationby Mark Kurlansky
Penguin (Non-Classics); Published: 2001-02-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $6.02
Price in other shops:
Salt: A World Historyby Mark Kurlansky
Penguin (Non-Classics); Published: 2003-01-28; Paperback; Book
Best price: $4.94
Price in other shops:
Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the Worldby Mark Kurlansky
Penguin (Non-Classics); Published: 1998-07-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $7.82
Price in other shops:
The Last Fish Taleby Mark Kurlansky
Riverhead Trade; Published: 2009-05-05; Paperback; Book
Best price: $1.99
Price in other shops: