Fish : The Complete Guide to Buying and Cooking

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Summary: Superb!
Review: This cookbook is a gem. We have not encountered one dud in the entire book. Recipes are straightforward, easy to follow and most require 'everyday' ingredients. We have gone from cooking fish maybe twice a year to twice a week. I have never before encountered a cookbook that was full of one excellent recipe after another. I particularly enjoy Mark's brief Recipe notes, explaining why a recipe is in the book. " My best friend..." "My absolute favorite recipe for shrimp...." If you like fish, buy it.

Rating:
Summary: Superb!
Review: This cookbook is a gem. We have not encountered one dud in the entire book. Recipes are straightforward, easy to follow and most require 'everyday' ingredients. We have gone from cooking fish maybe twice a year to twice a week. I have never before encountered a cookbook that was full of one excellent recipe after another. I particularly enjoy Mark's brief Recipe notes, explaining why a recipe is in the book. " My best friend..." "My absolute favorite recipe for shrimp...." If you like fish, buy it.

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Summary: This book is thorough and complete.
Review: This cookbook is thorough and accurate in educating anyone on the selecting,buying, and preparing of seafood. I was well prepared after reading this cookbook to visit my seafood shop and intelligently discuss seafood with my fish monger. It allowed me to ask pertinent questions that I would not otherwise have known to ask. I was also able to judge if my fish monger was knowledgable and honest in giving me information regarding my seafood purchases. The recipes were tried and true, allowing the homecook to prepare first time dishes to perfection . I particularly like the common sense issues such as suggesting in each recipe several different types of fish which could be substituted and the author's wonderful approach to presenting the truth about fish consumption. I daresay the health police are valiantly exposed in their misrepresentation of the facts on seafood. This is a excellent book for the person who makes seafood a part of their regular menu.

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Summary: Excellent book but not quite complete
Review: This is probably the only fish cook book you'll ever need. However, it's rather thin when it comes to photographs. A complete photographic chart of all the fish mentioned in the book would have been fabulous.

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Summary: This book is the result of 15 years of passionate research.
Review: When I finally decided the time was right to write FISH, I had been writing about food for 15 years, and cooking fish almost every day during that period. I couldn't get enough of it, yet I realized that most people were intimidated by fish. That's why I organized the book so that it would help people buy fish as well as cook it. In a world in which seafood is an international commodity, buying is the true challenge. Cooking fish, in fact, is easy: If you can cook vegetables, you can cook seafood.My book makes it easy.