NO.72
FALL/WINTER2023
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No.29, Jun 2012
The Oyster Number
The Oyster Number
- in the critical
- An enduring if annoying New York legend; the Oyster Bar at Grand Central Terminal.
- Imitation and innovation at Shaw’s Crab House.
- Failure in New Orleans, or, the demise of Desire.
- An unlikely pilgrimage to the Matunuck Oyster Bar.
- Oysters at Lüke in New Orleans.
- Oysters at Randall & Aubin in London.
- Cakes and ale… and oysters in London at the aptly named English Restaurant hard by Spitalfields Market.
- A review of two books on oysters that follow different paths, featuring a digression on the lifestyle of the fortunate oyster.
- in the lyrical
- On oysters: The British origin of a robust American tradition.
- An Appreciation of the oyster, on Nantucket and in New Orleans, from our Reluctant Correspondent.
- Hemingway eats oysters in Paris.
- A poem about oysters from Jonathan Swift.
- in the practical
- Oyster stew.
- An eighteenth century oyster and kidney pie.
- A note on steak & oyster tartare, with a recipe.
- Boiled Turkey with Stuffing and Celery Sauce
- An oyster omelet.
- Hangtown Fry.
- Grilled oysters.
- Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s oyster, celeriac and leek soup
- Alexandre Dumas’ supermignonette for oysters.
- Angels on horseback.