The Essential Seafood Cookbook (Hardcover)

~ Wendy Stephen (Editor) "Shown here are a few common seafood varieties from the hundreds harvested worldwide..." (more)
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Product Description

From crab cakes in a New York eatery, to moules mariniere in a French bistro, or salty fish and chips on a windy boardwalk, seafood is deliciously at home anywhere. Today, caviar is a costly extravagance, and fish is a highlight on pricey restaurant menus, so it is hard to imagine that seafood was once poor man's fare. But tastes and values have changed and The Essential Seafood Cookbook - with over 600 full-color photographs - shows how fresh seafood now enjoys respect and popularity around the world.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 304 pages
• Publisher: Thunder Bay Press (March 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 157145960X
• ISBN-13: 978-1571459602
• Product Dimensions: 11.3 x 8.8 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #382,893 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Simply the best seafood cookbook ever!, April 3, 2005

By	Jeffrey Clark (St. Louis, MO USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is currently my favorite cookbook and I believe the entire "The Essential .... Cookbook" series is magnificent for beginning cooks and more experienced ones alike.

Pros:
1) Every recipe includes a very high quality photo.

2) Every recipe has a 1 to 3 star rating indicating the difficulty and includes the preparation and total cooking time alone with the total servings.

3) It is very diverse in the recipe styles, from stir fry to southwest to Mediterranean and from soups to grilling to casseroles.

4) It offers a number of brief special feature sections: Seafood sauces, coating & batters, seafood platters, etc.

Cons:
1) If you enjoy this cookbook as much as I do and begin to expand your "The Essential ... Cookbook" collection you will find that many of the recipes are repetitive. For example, The Essential Wok Cookbook and The Essential Seafood Cookbook have some of the same seafood stir fry recipes.

2) There is no nutritional information section.

3) In connection to my earlier comment # 3 in Pros, since it is so diverse, some of the recipes will clearly never make it into my kitchen. Anyone for Garfish with Rice Stuffing? (If you are even considering this, wait until you see the picture!)

I listed the Cons for informational purposes, but I clearly think they are dwarfed by the Pros that I have outlined above. FYI - The Chilli Crab and Tomato Dip on pg. 59 is a definite crowd pleaser!

20 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A BEAUTIFUL AND RICH BOOK NO SEAFOOD LOVER SHOULD MISS, April 24, 2003

By	C. Terzis "cterzis" (Nicosia Cyprus) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I own this book and every time I open it I always get impressed by the amount of work in it.No wonder since this is a book by KONEMANN.All their books are "CREME DE LA CREME"!!!It has virtually hundreds of recipies ,all with beautiful full colour photographs about every living thing in the sea.There are loads of information on techniques and ingredients and the recipies are delicious and diverse.Don't be fooled by the price, there are lots of books costing twice as much as this and they are not even worth looking at.KONEMANN'S books are always underpriced!It's worth buying this book even if you never cook a single recipe from it.The richness and beauty of it alone are worth the price.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointed, January 2, 2007

By	petite professional (Indianapolis, IN) - See all my reviews

I was hoping for a good seafood cookbook that I can use, what I got was a seafood cookbook that is more of a picture, coffee table book. Sure the color photos are beautiful, but many of the ingredients are way too exotic. How often have you seen paw-paws for sale? Do you know what they are? Sure, I may be able to go out in the woods of southern Indiana to get this "Indiana banana" when it is in season, but alas, I work full time and get most of my food at a grocery store.