The Joy of Seafood: The All-Purpose Seafood Cookbook with More Than 900 Recipes

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From award-winning chef and sustainable food activist Barton Seaver comes the most comprehensive seafood reference available for home cooks, featuring more than 1,000 recipes for nearly 100 saltwater species. With 1,000+ recipes and all the essentials of preparation, this is the cookbook every seafood lover MUST have. Inspired by American regi

Before leaving the restaurant industry to pursue his interests in sustainable food systems, award-winning chef Barton Seaver created three top restaurants in Washington, DC. Since then, he has written several books on the topic of sustainable seafood and cookery, including For Cod and Country, Two If By Sea, Superfood Seagreens, and American Seafood. Seaver is the Contributing Seafood Editor at Coastal Living magazine, and he and his work have also been featured in The New York Times, Cooking Light, O: The Oprah Magazine, Every Day with Rachael Ray, Martha Stewart's Whole Living, the Washington Post, and Fortune, among many others. He has appeared on CNN, NPR, and 20/20. Seaver was the host of the national television program In Search of Food on the Ovation Network and Eat: The History of Food on National Geographic TV.

"Chef Seaver (For Cod and Country) distills his vast knowledge of seafood in this encyclopedic work. Noting that today's technology allows for frozen fish to be just as good as, if not better than, the fresh seafood in stores, Seaver shares the best preparations for over 100 species. Each entry opens with an overview of a species and its aliases (Acadian redfish is sometimes sold as rosefish or ocean perch), along with preparations --grilling, roasting, poaching, and others--and acceptable substitutes for when you can't find a specific fish (e.g., jack and tilapia can be substituted for meaty grouper). There are 15 recipes for shrimp, 19 for oysters, 25 recipes that call for canned anchovies, and more than 30 for salmon. His selections are smart: fried haddock en adobo, halibut gravlax with dill, and sauteed sablefish with rosemary and Madeira wine. For down-to-earth comfort food, there's also pasta with imitation crabmeat and fennel cream sauce, as well as a tuna melt and tuna casserole. This superb collection conveys Seaver's experience, enthusiasm, and creativity." --Publishers Weekly