Consider the Oyster Rashid I. Khalidi New York is a playground

New York is a playground where they dance and drink for days on end

Celebrates the Du Pont family heritage of land stewardship and horticultural creativity

" – New York Times Book Review

in his inventive and beloved voice

desperate tenacity

Consider the Oyster Rashid I. Khalidi New York is a playgroundM. F. K. Fisher, whom John Updike has called our "poet of the appetites," here pays tribute to that most delicate and enigmatic of foods the oyster. As she tells of oysters found in stews, in soups, roasted, baked, fried, prepared la Rockefeller or au naturel and of the pearls sometimes found therein Fisher describes her mother's joy at encountering oyster loaf in a girls' dorm in the 1890's, recalls her own initiation into the "strange cold