5/17/2023 0 Comments The big oyster by mark kurlanskyIn spite of all this, the shell middens left by our ancestors since the earliest times show that oysters have been an important part of the human diet for centuries. And some of them can grow to a foot long, which, as William Makepeace Thackeray once complained, was "like eating a baby." And, if you enjoy oysters as a culinary delicacy, you would do well to stop reading right there and skip to the next chapter, because what follows is a detailed description of a complex, sensitive creature which we keep alive so that, complete with "a working brain, a stomach, intestines, liver and a still beating heart," we can swallow it whole. So begins one early chapter of this book by Mark Kurlansky. Up until the nineteenth century the oyster was thought to be a simple primitive creature.
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