English Seafood Cookery


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'Deserves a place on everyone's kitchen shelf' - Sophie Grigson Fish is becoming increasingly popular with the British who are learning to appreciate its enormous variety, versatility and its value as an essential part of a healthy diet. Drawing on culinary traditions from around the world, Rick Stein presents the special recipes he serves at his Seafood Restaurant in Padstow, and, by sharing the secrets of his most popular dishes, encourages us to cook seafood in new and exciting ways.




The Complete Book of American Fish and Shellfish Cookery


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More than 680 recipes, ranging from the classic seafood repertoire to light, easily prepared dishes, cover the full range of fish varieties available in the United States.




Jane Brody's Good Seafood Book


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Provides information on how to select, clean, fillet, and store fish with basic seafood cooking techniques. Includes 240 low-fat recipes.




American Seafood


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From prestigious writer, chef, and environmental advocate Barton Seaver comes a seminal reference that will be the go-to source on seafood. American Seafood looks at maritime history, fishing technology, the effect of imports on our diet, economy, and seas; the biology of taste; and the evolution of seafood cuisine. Although this isn't a cookbook, Barton Seaver reveals his favorite taste pairings and methods for cooking seafood. An index of species rounds out this must-have volume.




Sicilian Seafood Cooking


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Sicilians love seafood and seasonal produce. Sicilian Seafood is an intriguing compendium of 120 unusual traditional recipes for seafood and its accompaniments--including a great variety of first and second-course dishes, food for feasts, special sauces, delicious vegetables. A lively, authoritative book, it celebrates the great diversity of Sicilian food, which is intensely regional. The author takes readers on a culinary journey around Sicily, using seasonal produce and traditional cooking methods and techniques, layered with fascinating information about the origins of recipes and information about sustainability issues.




Good Fish


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Learn to shop for—and cook—Pacific coast seafood that’s good for your health and the planet, with 100 recipes, plus cooking techniques and practical tips for buying. Chef and seafood advocate Becky Selengut helps simplify sustainable seafood choices for consumers in this fully revised and expanded edition that now includes lingcod, Pacific cod, wahoo (or ono), mahi-mahi, and herring. From shellfish to finfish to “littlefish” (think sardines), find recipes for 20 varieties of “good fish” (plus even more recipes for salmon!). There are also cooking techniques (such as how to sear a scallop perfectly), tips for buying and caring for seafood, and the most current sustainability information. Seattle sommelier April Pogue provides wine pairings for each recipe. Included are recipes for: Clams, mussels, oysters, Dungeness crab, shrimp, scallops, wild salmon, Pacific halibut, black cod, lingcod, rainbow trout, albacore tuna, Pacific cod, Arctic char, mahimahi, wahoo (or ono), sardines, herring, squid, and caviar. Good Fish is a bible for Pacific coast sustainable seafood.




Rick Stein's Complete Seafood


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Fish is the ultimate sophisticated weeknight or company dinner, but it can intimidate even the most nimble home cooks. RICK STEIN'S COMPLETE SEAFOOD offers an almost limitless repertoire, with detailed instructions and extensive charts. Hundreds of photographs and illustrations show how to scale and gut fish for the grill, bake whole fish in a salt or pastry casing, hot-smoke fish, prepare live crabs, and clean and stuff squid, along with other essential techniques. The most comprehensive full-color seafood instructional available, now in paperback. 2005 James Beard Cookbook of the Year. Carefully vetted and adjusted to correspond with North American fish and shellfish availability and sustainability. ReviewsFor all things fish related, we've found no better source than Rick Stein's Complete Seafood, a handsome, amply illustrated volume that details the selecting, handling, and cooking of every species imaginable." --Saveur (Top 100 Home Cook Edition) "Many step-by-step photos make clear how to scale, gut and fillet fish and how to handle a wide variety of shellfish and crustaceans...Cooking techniques are given the sam thoughtful, step-by-step treatment. And the text is compelling enough, with lots of first-person instruction, to read at bedtime."--Washington Post




Fish


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Fish: Recipes from the Sea features over 200 authentic Italian home cooking recipes for preparing fish and seafood, carefully collected from the Silver Spoon kitchen. From traditional seafood groups to simple grilled fish with herbs, the recipes in Fish are simple and authentic, explained with clear step-by-step instructions and vivid colour photography. The chapters in Fish are divided by fish variety and include White, Oily, Flat, Freshwater Fish, and Seafood. The cookbook offers tips on how to take an Italian approach to cooking with seafood including how to choose, prepare, and cook local, sustainle fish and produce, as well as offering ideas for substituting varieties. Fish also contains an illustrated guide on how to recognize different categories of fish, how to choose fresh fish, and even describes marine life, and mannerisms for the different varieties. Fish contains delicious, authentic home recipes for all food occasions.




The Joy of Seafood


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With 800+ recipes, this exciting collection--which showcases fresh ingredients and culinary techniques such as roasting, grilling, poaching, and brining--will be the go-to source for decades to come. Modern dishes include such crowd-pleasing fare as Citrus-Crusted Fried Halibut, New Orleans BBQ Shrimp, Clam Risotto, Cod Cakes, and Hot Smoked Salmon.ed Salmon.




Lure


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Eating sustainable seafood is about opening your mind (and fridge) to a vast array of fish and shellfish that you might not have considered before--and the Pacific Coast is blessed with an abundance of wild species. With Lure, readers embark on a wild Pacific adventure and discover the benefits of healthy oils and rich nutrients that seafood delivers. This stunning cookbook, authored by chef and seafood advocate Ned Bell, features simple techniques and straightforward sustainability guidelines around Pacific species as well as 80 delicious recipes to make at home. You'll find tacos, fish burgers, chowders, and sandwiches--the types of dishes that fill bellies, soothe souls and get happy dinner table conversation flowing on a weekday night--as well as elegant (albeit still simple-to-execute) dinner party options, such as crudo, ceviche, and caviar butter.