Top Three Fish Cookbooks - Best Fish Cookbooks
For people who love to cook and eat fish, these top three fish cookbooks are must haves for your collection. Read the reviews and see just how fabulous these books are.
1. Fish: The Complete Guide to Buying and Cooking – Mark Bittman
This book has really simplified the process of preparing fish. Set up in an easy-reference, A-Z format, Fish gives you the culinary secrets on seventy kinds of fish and shellfish popularly found in most supermarkets and fish stores. Each entry details how the fish is sold (fillets, steaks, whole, salted), and other names it goes by, how the fish should appear, and purchasing tips. Fish begins with general instructions on how to store, prepare, and cook fish, whether sautéing, frying, grilling, or smoking. There are some fabulous easy to follow pictures as well such as how to gut a fish. This book is very comprehensive, with more than 500 recipes and numerous variations that you can play around with. Most of the dishes take less than 30 minutes so you don’t have to worry about having to slave too much in the kitchen. Definitely, this cookbook is a great buy.
2.The Williams-Sonoma Collection: Fish
This book is a collection of over 40 recipes which include traditional dishes as well as some exciting modern ones. Whether you need something for a simple dinner, something fancy for guests or just some wholesome, satisfying food, this book is sure to have it. There is also an entire chapter dedicated to seafood other than fish. You will find recipes to make scallops, shrimp, lobster and wide variety of other delicious dishes.
Full-color illustrations of each recipe make it simple to decide which to cook, and each dish is paired with a photographic side note that showcases a key ingredient or cooking method, making Fish much more than just a basic collection of recipes. An educational basics section and broad glossary fill in everything you need to know to add delectable fish to your cooking gamut.
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3. Fish & Shellfish: The Cook's Indispensable Companion - James Peterson
This book explains every possible method and technique for preparing delicious meals of shellfish and fish. The author has used methods such as baking, grilling, braising, broiling, deep-frying, to poaching, marinating, curing, steaming, smoking and pan-frying. Within the chapters you'll discover how to prepare alluring recipes extraordinary for their ease of preparation, their adaptability, and their uniqueness Here Peterson offers such splendid flavors and textures as juicy Stuffed Striped Bass with Spinach, Shrimp, and Mushrooms. This cookbook is definitely an astounding resource that anyone who loves seafood should have in their kitchen.
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Hopefully, these top three fish cookbooks were helpful in figuring out which one you would like to pick up. They are all available online on amazon.com
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