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...edibles, in the coming months raw fish may not be just for sushi restaurants anymore. Western chefs are devoting menus to tartares, carpaccio, crudo and all sorts of uncooked flesh. At BAR TONNO in New York City, chef Scott Conant serves nothing but raw fish, Italian style, like orata rossa with baby chanterelles and leeks, below...
...Sergius Orata the noblest and least appreciated Roman of them all? While more militant Romans were battling the Cimbri along the Rhine toward the end of the 2nd century B.C. and the poet Lucilius was pouring out his satires, Sergius Orata was pouring his considerable fortune into his single passion-the cultivation of the oyster. The ups and downs of that bivalvular mollusk ever since are the subject of Novelist Clark's book-a witty blend of fact, fable and fine poetic nonsense...
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