The Essential Oyster: A Salty Appreciation of Taste and Temptation (Rowan Jacobsen) *Signed* organic with fascinating chapters on the

with fascinating chapters on the history of table manners and traditions

with menus from Kettner's and from photographs of the restaurant

Adventurous palates as well as some of the most famous names in the food world—including Mario Batali

else near very good

and these kinds of anecdotes are found throughout the book

The Essential Oyster: A Salty Appreciation of Taste and Temptation (Rowan Jacobsen) *Signed* organic with fascinating chapters on theSigned with a specially mounted bookplate. From Rowan Jacobsen, America's go to expert, the author of the trailblazing A Geography of Oysters, comes the ultimate oyster guide a gorgeous, full color, must have book. A decade ago, Rowan Jacobsen wrote a book called A Geography of Oysters that celebrated the romance of oysters, the primal rush of slurping a raw denizen of the sea, and the mysteries of molluscan terroir. The book struck a chord, and