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The big oyster: history on the half shell
The big oyster: history on the half shell
Author
Kurlansky, Mark
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Publication Date
c2006
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
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Phillips OWHL - Lower Level - 600s
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The hard shell of the city
A good time coming
The beds of eden
A molluscular life
The bivalvent dung hill
The fecundity of bivalvency
A nice bed to visit
Becoming the world's oyster
Eggocentric New Yorkers
The shells of sodom
The crassostreasness of New Yorkers
Making your own bed
Ostreamaniacal behavior
Ostracized in the golden age
Enduring shellfishness.
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Cookery (Oysters)
History
New York (State) -- New York -- History
Oysters
Oysters -- New York (State) -- New York
Seafood industry
Seafood industry -- New York (State) -- New York -- History
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9780345476388
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