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Oysters in Literature
Five centuries of writers on the oyster, checked against the original texts: opportunity, courage, poverty, appetite and comfort.
Culture
Hemingway's Portugaises
The oysters Hemingway ate in A Moveable Feast were Portuguese oysters. Within fifty years a virus had wiped them out of France.
Culture
Casanova's Fifty
The famous fifty-oyster breakfast has no source. The oyster game in Casanova's memoirs does: Rome, 1771, a hundred oysters shipped from Venice.