Overview
The extraordinary story of the oyster and its pearl in human history, culture, jewellery and recipes.Editorials
The Times (London)
"This addictive book gives the oyster its cultural, historical, scientific and nutritional due."
The Guardian
"Part of Reaktion''s superb animal series, Stott''s book doesn''t disappoint. Intelligently written and lavishly illustrated, Oyster is a feast for the eyes and mind."--P.D. Smith, The Guardian— P.D. Smith
Delicious
"The book is full of great facts, quirky stories and the obligatory--but in this case entertaining--chapter on seduction."
The Glasgow Herald
"marvellous ... The most luxuriously illustrated volume yet in the Reaktion ''Animal'' series ... Treat yourself to a dozen oysters, a bottle of Chablis and this delicious book."--Todd McEwen, The Glasgow Herald— Todd McEwen
Waitrose Food Illustrated
"This little book... is bursting with amusing oyster anecdotes."
Country Life
"This fascinating, beautifully produced and illustrated account is based on worldwide scholarship enlivened by some pretty saucy stuff... Altogether, this is a sucucculent little book. Tuck in!--John Jollife, Country Life— John Jollife
Gastronomica
"Her well-researched Oyster dazzles with its breadth of details and observations. . . . An ambitious undertaking . . . . Stott''s Oyster pleases the reader with its wealth of information, its prodigious research into the zoological aspects of the androgynous mollusk, and its sure-hand appraisal of oyster literature and lore. . . . commendable study."--Gastronomica— Joan Reardon
Bookslut
"I'm addicted to London-based Reaktion Books's Animal Series . . . [the books in the series] offer sumptuous portions of natural and cultural history so surprising and visually gorgeous that readers will never again see the book's focal animal in the way they had before."-—Barbara J. King, Bookslut
The Guardian
"Part of Reaktion's superb animal series, Stott's book doesn't disappoint. Intelligently written and lavishly illustrated, Oyster is a feast for the eyes and mind."
The Glasgow Herald
"marvellous ... The most luxuriously illustrated volume yet in the Reaktion 'Animal' series ... Treat yourself to a dozen oysters, a bottle of Chablis and this delicious book."
Country Life
"This fascinating, beautifully produced and illustrated account is based on worldwide scholarship enlivened by some pretty saucy stuff... Altogether, this is a sucucculent little book. Tuck in!--John Jollife, Country Life
Gastronomica
"Her well-researched Oyster dazzles with its breadth of details and observations. . . . An ambitious undertaking . . . . Stott's Oyster pleases the reader with its wealth of information, its prodigious research into the zoological aspects of the androgynous mollusk, and its sure-hand appraisal of oyster literature and lore. . . . commendable study."
Bookslut
"Happily, Storr's account includes a rigorous awareness of oysters as living beings, more than mere playthigns for the human palate. Complementing the natural history (and the cultural history too) are Reaktion's trademark luminous illustrations. . . . If each volume pleases as much as does Oyster, I'll soon need a new bookshelf built. . . . I defy anyone to emerge from a reading of Oyster with indifference intact."