The Big Oyster: A Molluscular History Of New York Mark Kurlansky Vintage Αγγλικά Βιβλία World

When Peter Minuit Bought Manhattan For $24 In 1626 He Showed His Shrewdness By Also Buying The Oyster Beds Off Tiny Nearby Island Renamed Ellis 1770 From Purchase Until Pollution Finally Destroyed 1920S New York Was A City Known Its Oysters Especially Late 1800S Europe And America Enjoyed Decades-Long Craze Dubious Endorsement William Makepeace Thackeray Said That Eating Like Baby Travellers To Were Keen Experience Famous Houses While Some Their Elegance Due Longstanding Belief Aphrodisiac Quality Of They Often Associated With Prostitution 1842 Novelist Charles Dickens Arrived Could Not Conceal Eagerness Find Fabled Cellars City\ S Slums Big Is Story An International Trade Filled Cultural Social Culinary Insight - As Well Recipes Maps Drawings Photographs This History At Most Engrossing Entertaining Delicious Σελίδες: 336 Διαστάσεις: 13X13Cm