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Sex, Death and Oysters: Sex, Death & Oysters...captures the Houston food writer at his best, offering culinary insight, scientific fact, and offbeat humor as he travels the globe in search of the truth about oysters (including their alleged resemblance to the female anatomy and occasional fatal effects). His five-year adventure led him far from Galveston Bay to places such as France and Ireland, where he questioned many a mollusk expert -- harvesters, farmers, and consumers -- about the makings of a superior oyster. A helpful, amusing, no-nonsense oyster manual for the layperson. Ample oyster facts, figures and literary lore flesh out a book that at times discloses surprising and complex economic and social connections between mollusk supply and demand... |
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Robb was nominated for a James Beard Journalism Award in 2008 in the Newspaper Feature Writing about Restaurants and or Chefs category for "Guess Who's Cooking Your Dinner." |
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Read a few other old nuggets, see Robb's latest restaurant review in the
Houston Press, and check out some NPR commentaries.
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