Oysters: A Celebration in the Raw

Pliny the Elder wrote extensively about oysters nearly two thousand years ago, and painters from Manet to Lichtenstein captured them repeatedly on canvas. Boston chef Jeremy Sewall and Emmy-winning producer Marion Lear Swaybill created Oysters: A Celebration in the Raw, with photography by Scott Snider. It profiles more than fifty North American oyster varietals with flavor notes and "merroir," plus chapters on the farmers who grow them and oysters' long history in art. A food that disappears in one bite has inspired two thousand years of writing and art, held here in a navy bonded leather edition that will leave you reaching for mignonette.