Robb Walsh

Sex, Death and Oysters (eBook, ePUB)

A Half-Shell Lover's World Tour

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A surprisefilled shellfish survey dishes up ample oyster facts, figures and literary lore (Publishers Weekly). When awardwinning Texas food writer Robb Walsh discovers that the local Galveston Bay oysters are being passed off as Blue Points and Chincoteagues in other parts of the country, he decides to look into the matter. Thus begins a fiveyear journey into the culture of one of the world's oldest delicacies. Walsh's throughthelookingglass adventure takes him from oyster reefs to oyster bars and from corporate boardrooms to hotel bedrooms in a quest for the truth about the world's most profitable aphrodisiac. On the Atlantic, the Pacific, and the Gulf coasts of the US, as well as the Canadian Maritimes, Ireland, England, and France, the author ingests thousands of oystersraw, roasted, barbecued, and bakedall for the sake of making a fair comparison. He also considers the merits of a wide variety of accompanying libations, including tart white wines in Paris, Guinness in Galway, martinis in London, microbrews in the Pacific Northwest, and tequila in Texas. Sex, Death and Oysters is a record of a gastronomic adventure with illustrations and recipesa fascinating collection of the most exciting, instructive, poignant, and just plain weird experiences on a trip into the world of the most beloved and feared of all seafoods.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Catapult
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781582436500
• Artikelnr.: 50300259

Autorenporträt

Robb Walsh has been a food writer for 15 years. He has been the restaurant critic for the Houston Press since 2000 and was formerly the food columnist for Natural History magazine and the editor in chief of Chile Pepper magazine. He currently writes for Gourmet, Saveur, and other publications. He has been nominated for the James Beard Award 13 times and won twice. He has also won the Bert Greene Award for Newspaper Food Journalism as well as several awards from the Association of Food Journalists. His books include The Texas Cowboy Cookbook, Legends of Texas Barbecue Cookbook, The TexMex Cookbook, and Are You Really Going to Eat That? Walsh's newspaper and magazine articles appear in several anthologies including Best Food Writing 20012006 and Cornbread Nation, Best Southern Food Writing I & II, from the Southern Foodways Alliance and University of North Carolina Press.