Every few decades a chef or a teacher writes a cookbook that is so comprehensive and offers such depth of subject matter and cooking inspiration that it becomes a virtual bible for amateur and professional alike. Author James Peterson, who wrote the book Sauces, a James Beard Cookbook of the Year winner, and the incomparable Splendid Soups, once again demonstrates his connoisseurship with Fish & Shellfish, a monumental cookbook that will take its rightful place as the first and last word on seafood preparation and cooking. Fish & Shellfish demonstrates every conceivable method for preparing sumptuous meals of fish and shellfish, from baking, braising, deep-frying, grilling and broiling to poaching, panfrying, marinating, curing and smoking, steaming, and microwaving. Whether your taste runs strictly to shellfish or to everything seafood, Fish & Shellfish offers the equivalent of a complete cookbook on each subject. Within the chapters on finfish you'll learn how to prepare enticing recipes remarkable for their ease of preparation, their versatility, and their originality Here Peterson offers such splendid flavors and textures as succulent Stuffed Striped Bass with Spinach, Shrimp, and Mushrooms; crunchy Halibut Fillets with Curry, Herbs, and Almond Crust; delicate Salmon Fillets A la Nage with Julienned Vegetables; savory Braised Tuna with Vegetables; and fiery Thai-Style Swordfish Satay. If it's shellfish you prefer, there are pages and pages of recipes for baking, frying, steaming, or serving raw everything in a shell, including mussels, clams, oysters, scallops, lobster, shrimp, crab, and crayfish. Peterson explains how to judge freshness and how to prepare shellfish delights, including lemony-flavored Steamed Mussels with Thai Green Curry; aromatic Littleneck Clams in Black BeanScented Broth; a simple and comforting Linguine with Clam Sauce; elegant Hot Oysters with Leeks and White Wine Sauce; rich and savory Braised Scallops with Tomatoes and Fresh Basil; Steamed Lobster with Coconut Milk and Thai Spices; Shrimp with Tomato Sauce, Saffron Aioli, and Pesto; hit-the-spot Sautéed Crab Cakes; and Japanese Style Grilled Squid, to name but a few of the brilliant and vast array of wonderful seafood selections.Fish & Shellfishalso offers techniques for preparing raw, marinated, cured, and smoked fish. As you exploreFish & Shellfish, you'll learn not only the essentials of seafood preparation but everything in between, including how to make a curry sauce, which red wines to cook with, how to fry parsley, and how to make Vietnamese dipping sauces. You'll learn the secrets of a variety of coatings, how to blacken fish, add stuffings, and deglaze the pan for sauces, as well as discover the delights of salsas, chutneys, relishes, mayonnaises, and butters. Here is seafood in every incarnation, from soups, stews, and pastas to mousses, soufflés, and salads. Try everything from pureed Marseilles-Style Fish Soup and Moroccan Swordfish Tagine with Olives and Saffron to Homemade Cuttlefish-Ink Linguine, and Crayfish Stew with Tomatoes, Sorrel, and Vegetables. Jim Peterson has traveled the world and brought back the best international seafood flavors, textures, and techniques. Now you can improvise on your own with Thai marinades, Indian spices and condiments, and Japanese grilling methods, all of which play off more familiar ingredients to produce memorable dishes. At the end of Fish & Shellfish you'll find a complete Finfish Dictionary, where you'll learn all you need to know about more than sixty species of saltwater and freshwater fish. There's also a 32-page section of color photographs that pictures many of the mouthwatering recipes in the book. And the step-by-step pictorials in the color section will show you how to prepare fish and shellfish for cooking. James Peterson's books have been hailed as the most companionable and dependable of cooking guides. Replete with tables, timing charts, advice about equipment, safety preparations, a glossary of foreign ingredients, and an exhaustive index, Fish & Shellfish will give you the power of flexibility and spontaneity as it transforms you into an accomplished seafood cook. Here is a fundamental cookbook that you will come to depend on every time you think seafood-and now you'll be thinking seafood all the time.

This beautiful guide will help you make the most of the wonderful range of food that comes from our oceans and rivers. Advice on how to choose the freshest fish and seafood, beautifully photographed step-by-step instructions covering the essential preparation and cooking techniques, and an illustrated directory are accompanied by 140 recipes from around the world.

Dive into seafood with the only fish cookbook you'll ever need From fresh grilled red snapper to pan-fried crab and the classic clam chowder, the world of seafood has an ocean's worth of flavors and cooking techniques to explore. Master them all with The Complete Fish Cookbook, your all-in-one resource for preparing crowd-pleasing meals where fish and seafood are the star. What sets this seafood cookbook apart: A whole world of seafood—Discover 115 vibrant recipes from a variety of cuisines that include fatty fish, flaky fish, shellfish, and more, so you can experience everything seafood has to offer. Options for every occasion—Serve up seafood sensations for any meal with sections for easy weeknight dinners, small plates, barbecues, or special events, complete with photos to show you what to expect. The ultimate fish guide—Take the guesswork out of cooking with a super-detailed introduction that explains all different kinds of fish, their taste and texture, how to source and shop for them, and how to prepare them safely. Make seafood part of your recipe repertoire today with the cookbook that shows you how to cook it all!

From Coho and sockeye to Dungeness and Kumamoto For thousands of years, the abundance of fish and shellfish in the Pacific Northwest created a seafood paradise for the Indigenous peoples hunting and gathering along the region’s pristine waterways, and, later, for the Chinese, Scandinavian, Filipino, and Japanese immigrants (along with many others), who have made this region home. Drawing on these diverse influences, the region fostered a cuisine that is as varied as its people, yet which remains specifically Northwestern. Here, food writer Naomi Tomky leads readers through an exploration of this cuisine. She starts with the basics of buying great-tasting and sustainable seafood, surveys the variety of seafood on offer—from stars like halibut and oysters to unsung heroes like lingcod and smelt—and shares 75 delicious recipes reflecting the people who live in the region today, including Red Curry Mussels, IPA-Battered Cod, Dungeness Crab Deviled Eggs, and Pink Scallop Ceviche. From the first cut of salmon, prized for its rich flavor and versatility, to the last crack of the sweet Dungeness crab, Tomky covers grilling, curing, and baking, and shares secrets for tricky tasks like removing pin bones and mussel beards. She explains how flavor-packed spot prawns put other shrimp to shame and why the region’s razor clams are unparalleled. For curious seafood rookies in search of the perfect fool-proof salmon and barnacled fish-cooking veterans looking for a new way to enjoy their favorite catch, The Pacific Northwest Seafood Cookbook is a must-have guide to cooking, and eating, the region. Including recipes from Tom Douglas, Shiro Kashiba, Bonnie Morales, Mutsuko Soma, Ethan Stowell, Jason Stratton, John Sundstrom, and more.

Rick Stein’s lifelong passion for cooking fish and shellfish has formed the foundation of his award-winning restaurants and taken him around the world, discovering innovative new recipes, exciting ingredients and the best preparation techniques. In this completely revised, updated and re-designed edition – including brand new recipes – of his classic Seafood, Rick offers comprehensive and inspirational how-to's for choosing, cooking and enjoying fish, shellfish and more. It includes a step-by-step guide to over 60 essential techniques to prepare all types of seafood: from poaching and salting fish to cleaning mussels and cooking lobster. Based on the methods taught at his Padstow seafood school, every step of Rick’s advice is illustrated with full-colour photographs for perfect results. Over 120 recipes from across the world include light salads, delicious starters and spectacular main courses – from Monkfish Vindaloo and Rick's own version of Salt and Pepper Squid to deliciously simple classics like Grilled Sardines and Clams with Garlic and Nut Picada. Complete with tips on buying, storing and sourcing sustainable fish, Rick Stein’s Fish and Shellfish is the essential companion for any fish-lover’s kitchen.

From sea to supper—75 sophisticated, yet simple, delicious seafood cookbook recipes Like the sea itself, cooking seafood can be quite intimidating—consider this your life raft. Dedicated to the home chef, the Essential Seafood Cookbook is full of recipes from the deep that allow you to recreate restaurant-quality dishes in your own home through straightforward, creative, and approachable techniques. Use the simple, step-by-step instructions to whip up meals using classic seafood ingredients for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. You'll also learn best practices for selecting and storing a wide variety of seafood choices, different cooking methods like poaching and pan roasting, as well as some must-haves for elevating your fare from ordinary to extraordinary. The Essential Seafood Cookbook includes: Omega 3 power—Discover 75 truly tasty recipes that are loaded with health benefits from helping to prevent heart disease and promoting weight loss to improving cognitive skills. Mix it up—Feel free to switch up some of your favorites with easy substitution options provided in this go-to seafood cookbook. Environmentally conscious—Use the buying guide for tips on purchasing sustainable seafood. Bring the best flavors of the ocean straight to your kitchen with the Essential Seafood Cookbook.

This tantalizing array of outstanding fish and shellfish recipes draws on the abundance of the Pacific Northwest's ocean harvest and the region's long tradition -- begun over 100 years ago at Jake's Famous Crawfish Restaurant in Portland, Oregon -- of cooking the very freshest seafood with simple techniques and innovative ingredients. Filled with advice on choosing, storing, and preparing a wide variety of fish and shellfish and generously illustrated with full-color photographs, Jakes Seafood Cookbook is an essential collection of spectacular dishes for novice and expert alike.

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.

Cooking fish and seafood is not the place to make mistakes. Inferior taste, a waste of expensive ingredients and even contamination can be the consequence. Seafood Basics ensures the best results. Step-by-step photographs demonstrate how to prepare fish and seafood using chef's skills. Tutorials demonstrate basic techniques, such as filleting a cooked round fish and butterflying shrimp, and concise instructions remind cooks of the do's and don'ts of handling fish and seafood. Seafood Basics is divided into eight chapters: - Basics. - Raw & Cured. - Soups & Stews. - Whole Fish. - Fast Fish. - Baked & Shallow-fried Fish. - Seafood Starters. - Seafood Main Courses. The 86 original recipes include Tuna Carpaccio, Bouillabaisse, Crab Bisque, Moroccan Fish Tagine, Louisiana Seafood Gumbo, Salt-encrusted Sea Bass, Sole with Beurre Noisette, Razor Clams in Garlic, Quick Monkfish Curry, Maryland Crab Cakes, Lobster with Cayenne, Stuffed Baked Squid and Spanish Seafood Paella. Cooks with experience will enjoy these imaginative recipes, while those intimidated by cooking fish and seafood will discover that with a few basic skills, seafood can be a tasty regular on the menu. AUTHOR: Abi Fawcett is a freelance food stylist whose clients have included Jamie Oliver. She is the author of Cake Basics. ILLUSTRATIONS: Colour photographs

In his debut cookbook, Joe Gurrera, one of New York's most-beloved fishmongers, and owner of the prestigious Citarella markets is on a mission to show us how easy it is to cook seafood. Customers tell Joe again and again that they're afraid to cook fish. They don't know how to buy it, handle it, or prepare it. Enter JOE KNOWS FISH. This book is a roadmap for novices looking to learn the basics of sourcing and cooking fish. With his easy-to-follow recipes and experience-based tips, Joe takes the intimidation out of cooking seafood.