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The River Cottage Fish Book

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If you liked the River Cottage Meat book, you should also like this book. You will find informed and up to date discussions and commentaries on the sustainability of various fisheries as well as fish farming practices, some very nice recipes and, descriptions of fishes found in the UK (although many are also available to North American consummers). Some recipes are a bit on the traditional and heavy side so I am guessing the omega3 crowd might be a bit disapointed. Since the book is a bit UK- and Euro-centric, I am hoping for an updated North American version.

Buy this book if you live on the British Isles or the west coast of Scandinavia. The book describes most edible fish in this part of the world. If you live outside this area I would imagine that there are more suitable books (like Fish & Shellfish: The Cook's Indispensable Companion). Even tough, naturally, some of the fish is found in North America as well.

The book has interesting information about fish species the Brits don't like and thus export to the French, a fish stock depletion index for each species, latin names, angling tips, attempts by UK supermarkets to sell tasty fish that happens to have ugly names, etc. The book also goes into a lot of details of how to filet fish and naturally different cooking methods. There is also a decent selection of recipes. However, this is a book for poeple who like fish as well as cooking fish. If you are just looking for a recipe collection, this book is overkill.