Fish, the Basics: An Illustrated Guide to Selecting and Cooking Fresh Seafood

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Chapters Pub. Limited, 1996 - 383 pages
Hailed by Gourmet magazine as "the best introductory fish cookbook . . . peerlessly though out," Shiley King's Fish: The Basics contains more than 100 recipes, organized by cooking technique, each one showing all the possible varieties of fish that can be substituted for one another; also includes illustrated profiles of more than 100 varieties of seafood.

Contents

PREFACE
9
BUYING AND STORING FISH AND SHELLFISH
22
METHODS OF PREPARATION
39
THE ATTRACTION OF COOKING WHOLE FISH
60
ACCOMPANIMENTS TO SEAFOOD
67
OPENFIRE AND INDOOR GRILLING
104
SOUPS AND STEWS
158
MICROWAVE SEAFOOD COOKERY
172
SEVICHE ESCABÈCHE and Other WAYS TO MARINATE SEAFOOD
180
SEAFOOD SALADS
191
A GUIDE TO COMMON FISH AND SHELLFISH
224
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