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by Rebecca Stott


  Blue Fin

  1567 Broadway (Midtown West)

  Manhattan

  212-918-1400

  Blue Ribbon Brooklyn

  280 Fifth Avenue

  Brooklyn

  212-840-0404

  Blue Ribbon Manhattan

  97 Sullivan Street

  Manhattan

  212-274-0404

  Grand Central Oyster Bar and Restaurant

  Grand Central Terminal

  89 East 42nd Street

  Manhattan

  212-490-6650

  Jack’s Luxury Oyster Bar

  246 East 5th Street

  Manhattan

  212-673-0338

  Pearl Oyster Bar

  18 Cornelia Street

  Manhattan

  212-691-8211

  California

  Brigantine – Coronado

  1333 Orange Avenue

  Coronado

  619-435-4166

  PJ’s Oyster Bed

  737 Irving Street

  San Francisco

  415-566-7775

  Swan Oyster Depot

  1517 Polk Street

  San Francisco

  415-673-1101

  Florida

  City Oyster

  213 East Atlantic Avenue

  Delray Beach

  561-272-0220

  Illinois

  Bluepoint Oyster Bar

  741 West Randolph Street

  Chicago

  312-207-1222

  Louisiana

  Black’s Oyster Bar

  319 Père Megret Street

  Abbeville

  337-893-4266

  Acme Seafood and Oyster House

  724 Iberville Street

  New Orleans

  504-522-5973

  Casamento’s Restaurant

  4330 Magazine Street

  New Orleans

  504-895-9761

  Massachusetts

  B&G Oysters

  550 Tremont Street

  Boston

  617-423-0550

  McCormick & Schmicks

  Faneuil Hall Marketplace

  Boston

  617-720-5522

  Union Oyster House

  41 Union Street

  Boston

  617-227-2750

  The Oyster Cabin

  785 Quaker Highway Route 146A

  Uxbridge

  508-278-4440

  North Carolina

  T. & W. Oyster Bar

  Highway 58 North

  Cape Carteret

  252-393-8838

  Half Shell Oyster Bar and Seafood

  Restaurant

  1706 Battleground Avenue

  Greensboro

  336-274-0950

  42nd Street Oyster Bar

  508 West Jones Street

  Raleigh

  919-831-2811

  Virginia

  22nd Street Oyster Bar

  2200 Colonial Avenue

  Norfolk

  757-248-2403

  Washington

  Oyster Bay Inn and Restaurant

  4412 Kitsap Way

  Bremerton

  360-377-5510

  Elliott’s Oyster House

  1201 Alaskan Way, Pier 56

  Seattle

  206-623-4340

  AUSTRALIA

  Blue Oyster

  2-22B/12 Knox

  Double Bay

  New South Wales

  02-9362-4010

  The Melbourne Oyster Bar and Seafood

  Restaurant

  209 King Street

  Melbourne

  Victoria

  03-9670-1881

  Tommy Ruff’s Seafood and Oyster Bar

  56 Marina Boulevard

  Cullen Bay

  Northern Territory

  08-8981-3633

  CANADA

  Naked Oyster

  110 Dundas Street

  London

  Ontario

  519-667-1337

  FRANCE

  Paris

  (Most brasseries in Paris serve oysters, displayed outside at the entrance.)

  Brasserie Le Dôme

  108 boulevard du Montparnasse

  01-43-35-2581

  L’Ecailler du Bistrot

  22 rue Paul Bert

  01-43-72-7677

  L’Huitrier

  16 rue Saussier Leroy

  01-40-54-8344

  Le Wepler

  14 place de Clichy

  01-45-22-5324

  Marseilles

  Coquillages Toinou

  3 cours Saint-Louis

  04-91-33-1494

  Nice

  Grand Café de Turin

  5 place Garibaldi

  04-93-62-2952

  JAPAN

  Tokyo

  Ginza Bairin

  Kojunsya Street

  7-8-1 Ginza

  Chuo-ku

  03-3571-0350

  Ginza Sembikiya 3F Restaurant

  8-8-8 Ginza

  Chuo-ku

  03-3572-0105

  Kitchen Yanagi

  Nodaya Building

  8-6-19 Ginza

  Chuo-ku

  03-3572-7277

  Mikawaya Honten

  4-7-16 Ginza

  Chuo-ku

  03-3561-2006

  Mikawaya Melsa Store (New Melsa Store 7F)

  5-7-12 Ginza

  Chuo-ku

  03-3574-8075

  Rengatei

  3-5-16 Ginza

  Chuo-ku

  03-3561-7258

  Restaurant Jardan

  3-3-13 Ginza

  Chuo-ku

  03-3562-1691

  Acknowledgements

  For the generous gathering of oyster ephemera from archives, books and galleries around the world I would like to thank Kevin Jackson, Jonathan Burt, Patricia Fara and the members of the Victoria List, particularly Ellen Jordan and Matt Demakos. For patient and inspired picture research and editorial work I would like to thank Amanda Randall, Robbie Kneale and Jane Seakins, talented undergraduate students at APU, Cambridge. Thank you to Hannah Morrish for helping with the index. The pictures were funded by a grant from the British Academy, for which I am most grateful.

  Photo Acknowledgements

  The author and publishers wish to express their thanks to the below sources of illustrative material and/or permission to reproduce it:

  The Art Institute of Chicago (Arthur Jerome Eddy Memorial Collection), photo © 2000 The Art Institute of Chicago, All Rights Reserved: p. 129; photos by the author, or from the author’s collection: pp. 32, 35, 41, 47, 67, 72, 79, 89, 98, 99, 119, 199, 205, 207; photos courtesy of Bettman/CORBIS: pp. 85, 112; Bodleian Library, Oxford (MS Bodley 264, f. 218r), photo Bodleian Library: p. 176; from William K. Brooks, The Oyster (Baltimore, Maryland, 1891): pp. 44, 46, 53; photos Cambridge University Library: pp. 42, 68; from Victor Coste’s Voyage d’Exploration sur Le Littoral de la France et de l’Italie (Paris, 1855): p. 43; photo by permission of the John Deakin Archive: p. 81; photos courtesy of the photographer, Alan Donaldson: p. 123; photos courtesy of the Mary Evans Picture Library: pp. 55, 62, 63, 69, 159; photo courtesy of the Florida State Archives: p.36; photos courtesy of Getty Images: pp. 9 (Stone), 120, 161, 202 (all Hulton Archive); photo courtesy of the artist (Paul Hill): p. 147; photo Kobal Collection/Superstock: p. 190; Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, photo courtesy of the Koninklijk Museum: p. 132; Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division (LC-USZ6-1306), photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine: p. 6; photo courtesy of the London Pearly Kings and Queens Society: p. 201; Manchester City Art Gallery, photo Manchester City Art Galleries: p. 179; photo courtesy of The Mariner’s Museum, Newport News, Virginia: p. 91; photo courtesy of Maryland Sea Grant: p. 24; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (purchase), photo: © 1983 Metropolitan Museum of Art: p. 142; The Minneapolis Institute of Arts (bequest of Richard P. Gale); photo courtesy of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts: p. 194; Musée
Condé, Chantilly (photo RMN-Harry Bréjat): p. 59; Musée du Louvre, Paris, photo courtesy of the Photographic Library of the Reunion des Musées Nationaux: p. 141; Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid: pp. 136, 203; Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam: p. 139; National Gallery, London (photo National Gallery Picture Library). p. 58. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (Patrons Permanent Fund), photo Bob Grove/National Gallery of Art Office of Visual Services: p. 137; photos courtesy of the National Library of Australia, Sydney: pp. 151, 152; National Portrait Gallery, London, photo National Portrait Gallery Picture Library, by courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, London: p. 187; photos courtesy of Pacific Coast Shellfish Growers Association: pp. 14, 28, 45, 48, 50, 51, 52, 156; photo courtesy of Popperfoto: p. 80; photo courtesy of Anthony Redpath/CORBIS, p. 173; from Lovell Augustus Reeve and G. B. Sowerby, Monograph of the Genus Philine (London, 1873): pp. 18, 20, 21, 22, 23; photos courtesy of the artist (Philip Ross): pp. 148, 149; Royal Cabinet of Paintings, ‘Mauritshuis’, The Hague, photos courtesy of the ‘Mauritshuis’: pp. 134, 135, 172; photo courtesy of the artist (Bianca Sforni): p. 144; Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, photo courtesy of the Staatsgalerie: p. 169; photo courtesy of the artist (Stephen Turner): p. 150; photo courtesy of Gian Berto Vanni/CORBIS: p. 118; photo © V&A Picture Library, courtesy of the artist (Hannah Collins): p. 143; The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland (photo Walters Art Museum Photo Services): p. 71; photo reproduced by permission of the Trustees of The Watts Gallery, Compton, Surrey: p. 103; photos courtesy of the Wellcome Library, London: pp. 92, 183; photos courtesy of the Zoological Society Library: pp. 18, 20, 21, 22, 23.

  Index

  Allen, Woody 111–12

  Alpers, Svetlana 139–40

  ama, pearl divers 193–5, 194, 195, 196

  anatomy 12, 31, 118

  Arnold, Sir Edward 178

  Australia 73, 151–2

  Bacon, Sir Francis (philosopher) 140

  Bacon, Francis (painter) 81, 81

  Bakst, Léon 189–90

  Baktin, Mikhail 114

  Beert, Osias 136–8, 136, 137, 145, 169

  Bentham, Jeremy 107–8

  Billingsgate, London 66

  Blackpool, Lancashire 80–81, 80

  Bolitho, Hector 7–9, 39–40

  Bourdain, Anthony 168–70

  Bowden, Samuel 83–4

  Boyle, Robert 106–7

  Bryson, Norman 140–41

  Bulot, Boyd 100

  Camporesi, Piero 61–4

  Cannadine, David 75–6

  Carlyle, Jane 125

  Carroll, Lewis 19, 93–7

  Casanova 155

  Chardin, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon 141–3, 141

  Cheney, Liana de Girolami 131

  China 37, 55, 174, 175, 176

  Claesz., Pieter 138

  Clark, Henry Savile 96

  Cleopatra 182–3, 183

  Colchester oyster feast 75–7

  Collins, Hannah 143, 146–7

  Cook, Captain 73

  Cooke, Edward 125–7, 126

  Coste, Victor 43–6, 46

  Cowper, William 108–9

  Cubagua 184–5

  cultch 28

  Dando, the oyster thief 84–6

  Darwin, Charles 116, 90, 125–6

  Defoe, Daniel 163–4

  Denmark 36

  Dickens, Charles 64–5, 73–5, 76–7, 122

  Doty, Mark 145–6

  Draper, James Herbert 179

  drill-dredge 49, 152

  Duncan, Isadora 156

  East India Company 61

  Eliot, George 120, 143–5

  Elizabeth I, Queen 186–7, 187

  embryology 13–14

  evolutionary history 13–20

  Exeter Book, The 56

  Fadiouth, Senegal 35–6

  Felton, Cornelius 73

  first oyster eater 101–5

  Firth of Forth 89, 90

  Fisher, M.F.K. 25–6, 32–3, 155, 174, 175–6

  Fontaine 83, 105

  Forbes, Edward 121–2

  France 43–6, 43, 44, 46, 45, 53, 59, 71, 118, 157

  Freud, Sigmund 114

  Gay, John 101, 157

  Gerard, James Watson 101, 117, 161–3

  Grant, Robert 108

  Hals, Dirck 58, 133

  Heaney, Seamus 206–7

  Heda, Willem Claesz. 138, 139

  Heem, Davidsz. de 145

  Hemingway, Ernest 204–5

  Hill, Paul 147–8, 147

  Holland 131–41

  Huxley, T. H. 31, 118

  India 176–7, 197–8

  Japan 34, 41–3, 51, 55, 100, 193–5, 194, 195, 196, 200

  Kaye, Stubby 85

  Keats, John 137–8

  Khoikhoi 37

  Kristeva, Julia 113

  Lankester, E. Ray 127–8

  Lévi-Strauss, Claude 113

  Liebig (LEMCO) picture cards of oysters 32

  Linnaeus, Carl 178

  Machin, Henry (London merchant) 57–60

  Manet, Eduard 128–30, 129

  Martial 54

  Mayhew, Henry 65–71

  Mieris, Frans van 133, 134

  Mikimoto, Kokichi 200

  Montaigne, Michel de 43, 106, 185

  Montgomery, James 180–81

  Moquin-Tandon, M. 110–11

  Napoleon III, Emperor 44–6

  Nash, Ogden 31

  New York 75, 87, 205

  New Zealand 7–9

  Nield, Robert 80

  Noble, Johnny 123

  Ondaatje, Michael 158

  Orata, Sergius 37–8

  Orford, Suffolk 48–52

  oyster

  eating competitions 100

  legislation 86–93

  pirates 90–91

  seller 62, 63, 67, 68, 69, 64–71

  stall 55, 62

  pearl buttons 198–202

  pearl diving 184–6, 192–8

  pearlies 200–02, 201, 202

  Pepys, Samuel 60–61, 172

  Persian Gulf 178–9, 181–2, 192–3

  Pinney, Richard 48–52

  Ponge, Francis 208–10

  predators 17, 17–19, 31–3

  pull-tab oysters 33

  railways 56

  reproduction 24–6

  Romans 37–9, 54, 176–7, 182–3

  Ross, Philip 148–50, 148, 149

  Rossetti, Christina 164

  Rudwick, Martin 116–17

  Russia 188–90, 188

  Sala, George Augustus 77–9

  Seneca 38

  sex / gender 28–31, 30, 155–7

  Sexton, Anne 167–8

  Sforni, Bianca 144, 146–7

  Shakespeare, William 180, 181

  shell middens 34–7, 36

  South Africa 36–7

  Spain 184–6

  Spartacus 167

  SPCA 109–11

  species

  Crassostrea angulata 20

  Crassostrea commercialis 20

  Crassostrea gigas 20, 24, 51

  Ostrea angasi 20

  Ostrea chilensis 20

  Ostrea crista 21

  Ostrea cucillina 18

  Ostrea cucullata 20

  Ostrea edulis 20, 22, 98

  Ostrea frons 20

  Ostrea lurida 20

  Ostrea megadon 21

  Ostrea ochracea 22

  Ostrea permollis 22

  Ostrea quercinus 20

  Ostrea retusa 20

  Ostrea rostralis 22

  Ostrea rufa 21

  Ostrea talienwahnensis 22

  starfish 33, 33

  Stead, W. T. 97

  Steen, Jan 133–5, 135

  Stevenson, Anne 114–15

  still-life 131–41

  Swift, Jonathan 101

  Sydney Opera House 151–2, 152

  Taylor, Elizabeth 192

  Thackeray, William

  Makepeace 111, 159–61

  The Oyster 10, 158

  The Pearl 10, 158


  tonguing 52, 205–9

  Turner, Stephen 150–51, 150

  USA 34, 35, 36, 40, 45, 47, 48, 50, 51, 52, 72, 74, 100, 148–50

  Utzon, Jorn 151–2

  Valentino, Rudolph 190

  Vermeer, Jan 171–2, 202–3

  Vriendt, Frans Floris 132, 132

  Walpole, Horace 186

  ‘The Walrus and the Carpenter’ 19, 93–7, 95

  Waters, Sarah 165

  Watts, G. F. 103, 104

  Webster, John 177–8

  Wells, H. G. 127

  Wheeler’s, London 81

  Whitman, Walt 162

  Whitstable, Kent 39, 41, 42, 61, 92–3

  Williams, Revd Charles 19, 125, 198–200

  World War I 79

  Yonge, C. M. 28

 

 

 


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