Before New York City was the Big Apple, it could have been called the Big Oyster. Now award-winning author Mark Kurlansky tells the remarkable story of New York by following the trajectory of one of its most fascinating inhabitants–the oyster, whose influence on the great metropolis remains unparalleled.
For centuries New York was famous for its oysters, which until the early 1900s played such a dominant a role in the city’s economy, gastronomy, and ecology that the abundant bivalves were Gotham’s most celebrated export, a staple food for the wealthy, the poor, and tourists alike, and the primary natural defense against pollution for the city’s congested waterways.
Filled with cultural, historical, and culinary insight–along with historic recipes, maps, drawings, and photos–this dynamic narrative sweeps readers from the island hunting ground of the Lenape Indians to the death of the 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.
Kurlansky brings characters vividly to life while recounting dramatic incidents that changed the course of New York history. Here are the stories behind Peter Stuyvesant’s peg leg and Robert Fulton’s “Folly”; the oyster merchant and pioneering African American leader Thomas Downing; the birth of the business lunch at Delmonico’s; early feminist Fanny Fern, one of the highest-paid newspaper writers in the city; even “Diamond” Jim Brady, who we discover was not the gourmand of popular legend.
With The Big Oyster, Mark Kurlansky serves up history at its most engrossing, entertaining, and delicious.
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早上辦事途中翻完.趣味小冊子通過生蠔講NYC曆史變遷的.但我地理很差..NYC harbor我都沒去過啊..讀的糊裏糊塗的。途中想到幾個無關的點.1生蠔雖然經常被當成aphrodisiac割消費者但我覺得商傢用錯論據瞭。食物鋅含量高vs精液鋅濃度高也許隻是補補鋅降低死精率吧。2鋅的代謝需要消耗銅元素..補太多缺銅瞭怎麼辦？頭發會變鋼絲球麼3.如果精遊離鋅增加，精子尾部彎麯，形態結構發生瞭變化..功能可否正常？well..all my inquiries seemed disturbingly cheerful 我得多看看書研究下以上問題..
评分早上辦事途中翻完.趣味小冊子通過生蠔講NYC曆史變遷的.但我地理很差..NYC harbor我都沒去過啊..讀的糊裏糊塗的。途中想到幾個無關的點.1生蠔雖然經常被當成aphrodisiac割消費者但我覺得商傢用錯論據瞭。食物鋅含量高vs精液鋅濃度高也許隻是補補鋅降低死精率吧。2鋅的代謝需要消耗銅元素..補太多缺銅瞭怎麼辦？頭發會變鋼絲球麼3.如果精遊離鋅增加，精子尾部彎麯，形態結構發生瞭變化..功能可否正常？well..all my inquiries seemed disturbingly cheerful 我得多看看書研究下以上問題..
评分早上辦事途中翻完.趣味小冊子通過生蠔講NYC曆史變遷的.但我地理很差..NYC harbor我都沒去過啊..讀的糊裏糊塗的。途中想到幾個無關的點.1生蠔雖然經常被當成aphrodisiac割消費者但我覺得商傢用錯論據瞭。食物鋅含量高vs精液鋅濃度高也許隻是補補鋅降低死精率吧。2鋅的代謝需要消耗銅元素..補太多缺銅瞭怎麼辦？頭發會變鋼絲球麼3.如果精遊離鋅增加，精子尾部彎麯，形態結構發生瞭變化..功能可否正常？well..all my inquiries seemed disturbingly cheerful 我得多看看書研究下以上問題..
评分早上辦事途中翻完.趣味小冊子通過生蠔講NYC曆史變遷的.但我地理很差..NYC harbor我都沒去過啊..讀的糊裏糊塗的。途中想到幾個無關的點.1生蠔雖然經常被當成aphrodisiac割消費者但我覺得商傢用錯論據瞭。食物鋅含量高vs精液鋅濃度高也許隻是補補鋅降低死精率吧。2鋅的代謝需要消耗銅元素..補太多缺銅瞭怎麼辦？頭發會變鋼絲球麼3.如果精遊離鋅增加，精子尾部彎麯，形態結構發生瞭變化..功能可否正常？well..all my inquiries seemed disturbingly cheerful 我得多看看書研究下以上問題..
评分早上辦事途中翻完.趣味小冊子通過生蠔講NYC曆史變遷的.但我地理很差..NYC harbor我都沒去過啊..讀的糊裏糊塗的。途中想到幾個無關的點.1生蠔雖然經常被當成aphrodisiac割消費者但我覺得商傢用錯論據瞭。食物鋅含量高vs精液鋅濃度高也許隻是補補鋅降低死精率吧。2鋅的代謝需要消耗銅元素..補太多缺銅瞭怎麼辦？頭發會變鋼絲球麼3.如果精遊離鋅增加，精子尾部彎麯，形態結構發生瞭變化..功能可否正常？well..all my inquiries seemed disturbingly cheerful 我得多看看書研究下以上問題..
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