Oysters

For oyster lovers everywhere, this luscious cookbook features recipes, shucking instructions, and the local farming success story of the many delicious oysters from the Pacific Coast. From Hangtown Hash with Fried Eggs to Half-Shell Oysters with Kimchi-Cucumber Relish, this gorgeous cookbook features 30 recipes, ideas for what to drink with oysters, and tips for buying, storing, and shucking to bring out the “oh!” in oysters. Since oysters are grown and harvested in some of the most beautiful environments on earth, the book is brimming with scenic as well as food photography. The delectable oysters grown along the West Coast—which include Pacific, Kumamoto, Olympia, and Eastern and European Flat species--are the stars of this beautiful cookbook celebrating oysters.

CYNTHIA NIMS is a lifelong Northwesterner who reveled in growing up surrounded by great food—both in her mother’s kitchen and exploring the region with her family, whether eating grilled oysters on a San Juan Island beach or huckleberry pancakes while backpacking in the Olympic Mountains. After graduating from the University of Puget Sound with majors in mathematics and French Literature, Cynthia followed her dreams and went to France to study cooking at La Varenne Ecole de Cuisine. There, she received the Grand Diplôme d’Etudes Culinaires and worked on numerous cookbooks with the school’s president, Anne Willan, including Great Chefs and Their Recipes, Château Cuisine, and ten in the Look & Cook series.

The author of over a dozen cookbooks, Cynthia’s most recent is Shellfish, with Salty Snacks and four titles in her Northwest Homegrown Cookbook Series among other books she has written. In her magazine work, Cynthia has served as editor of Simply Seafood and food editor of Seattle, in addition to contributing to Cooking Light, Coastal Living, Alaska Airlines Magazine, and other publications. She is an active member of the International Association of Culinary Professionals (for which she served as president of the board) and Les Dames d’Escoffier. Her website is monappetit.com and her newsletter, Seafood Savvy, is available on Substack. Cynthia and her husband live in Seattle.

Format: Paperback
Page Count: 160
Trim Size: 6-3/4 x 8
ISBN: 9781632175250