Archive for the ‘Fish and Seafood’ Category
Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
If you're going to eat animals, fish and seafood are tops. I could preach and pontificate endlessly on the virtues of clean, high quality protein and heart-healthy lipids, but I sense that most of my readers don't need to be told. By now you've surely also deduced that I am ...
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Wednesday, January 10th, 2007
It was a tongue-twister of a lunch on a drizzly late-spring afternoon in Remiza, a working-class neighborhood of Zagreb with winding alleys and hidden back roads. Josip and I had originally planned to leave on that day for Kućište with his brother-in-law Anton to begin ...
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Monday, November 20th, 2006
I love cooking for friends, especially when they invite me to come over and mess up their kitchen instead of my own. Almost as sure as the nose on the back of my neck, if I cook dinner at someone else's house, I don't even have to think about cleaning ...
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Saturday, November 18th, 2006
Of the hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of responses to my ichthyological quiz, not one contained the correct answer. This is hardly shocking. In America the species is more commonly encountered as a filet, either on a plate or sealed and frozen in plastic. I'm not a big fan of ...
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Sunday, November 12th, 2006
Cooking and eating are, for me, two very distinctly seperate pleasures. Oddly enough, the detached tranquility that creativity in the kitchen confers upon me is infrequently accompanied by a desire to eat what's been created. In my little world, the inspiration to cook usually begins with hunger - or at ...
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Friday, November 10th, 2006
The marine creature depicted in the image (at nearly actual size) was purchased in Missouri, but she's originally from China. She's as common as salmon on American menus these days. Can you guess the fish?
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Saturday, October 28th, 2006
Anchovies have always been one of my favorite snacks. Before I visited the Adriatic coast, you could often find me huddled over a can of salted anchovies in oil, slurping up the lubricious filets like a terrestrial dolphin with thumbs. The ancient method of salt-curing fish is still employed in ...
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Wednesday, October 18th, 2006
I'd be a real jerk for not introducing my friends in America to the exquisitely simple pleasures of Dalmatian cuisine, and my recent visit to Brooklyn gave me an opportunity to do just that. I walked with Mike and Karen to the farmer's market in Prospect Heights where, luckily, there ...
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Wednesday, September 20th, 2006
If you're standing in front of this Hajduk Split fan club mural on Split's Riva, turn 140 degrees to your right and walk about 75 meters.
Ask any of the locals. Buffet Fife (boo-fay FEE-fay) is the place to eat in Split. Fresh, organic ingredients are prepared simply and traditionally, ...
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Thursday, August 17th, 2006
A firm cluster of squid tentacles is a wonderful tool for mopping up a flavorful dipping sauce, but squid body? It's not really bite-sized, so it needs some processing with a knife, and that usually means rings. PROBLEM! A squid ring is usually at least 90% hole, which is why ...
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