# Stories

> Every story in Crumb Quarterly, by section.

*Stories*

## Kitchens, producers, places and essays

Everything from Issue 14 and the archive, by section.

*Cover*

## This issue

### The last oyster shucker on Pier Nine

![The last oyster shucker on Pier Nine](https://t-magazine.clearcms.app/media/oysters.svg)

Forty years, one knife, and a pier that is about to become flats.

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### Bread at 4 a.m.

![Bread at 4 a.m.](https://t-magazine.clearcms.app/media/bread.svg)

A night shift with the bakers who feed a neighbourhood before it wakes.

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### A market in winter

![A market in winter](https://t-magazine.clearcms.app/media/market.svg)

What a street market sells when nothing grows, and who still comes.

[Read the story](https://t-magazine.clearcms.app/stories/a-market-in-winter)

*Producers*

## The people behind the food

### The last oyster shucker on Pier Nine

![The last oyster shucker on Pier Nine](https://t-magazine.clearcms.app/media/oysters.svg)

Forty years, one knife, and a pier that is about to become flats.

[Read the story](https://t-magazine.clearcms.app/stories/the-last-oyster-shucker)

### The cave under the dairy

![The cave under the dairy](https://t-magazine.clearcms.app/media/cheese.svg)

Wheels, mould and the patience of a cheesemaker's grandson.

*Essays & recipes*

## Read slowly

### Six soups for a cold flat

![Six soups for a cold flat](https://t-magazine.clearcms.app/media/soup.svg)

One pot, one hour, one loaf of yesterday's bread.

### In defence of the fig

![In defence of the fig](https://t-magazine.clearcms.app/media/figs.svg)

A fruit that refuses to travel, and why that is its best quality.

### The cave under the dairy

![The cave under the dairy](https://t-magazine.clearcms.app/media/cheese.svg)

Wheels, mould and the patience of a cheesemaker's grandson.