The Essential Oyster is James Beard-award winner Rowan Jacobsen’s definitive guide to the oysters of North America and beyond, published by Bloomsbury.

“This book would not exist if Adrienne Anderson hadn’t walked into the Black Trumpet Bistro in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where I sat brooding over the impossible logistics of shooting scads of oysters across an entire continent, and waved her magic wand and made all my troubles go away.”

- Rowan Jacobsen
Author of A Geography of Oysters, Fruitless Fall, The Living Shore, American Terroir, Shadows on the Gulf, Apples of Uncommon Character, and The Essential Oyster