Product Description

There's more to seafood than lobster tails and fried calamari. Today's supermarkets are stocked with a bounty of delicious and delightful choices everything from salmon and snow crabs to oysters, barnacles, and even sea cucumbers! But you don't need a degree in marine biology to make sense of it all just Field Guide to Seafood. Award-winning chef Aliza Green explains everything you need to know about different kinds of seafood, fish, and prepared fish: how to select them, prepare them, serve them, and more, with a recipe for every one. Beautiful full-color photography depicts carp, catfish, clams, eel, squid, and more than 100 other swimmers. Don't buy seafood without it!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #164793 in Books
• Published on: 2007-03-29
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9781594741357
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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About the Author
Aliza Green is a chef, food writer, and teacher based in Philadelphia. She's the author of Field Guide to Produce (Quirk, 2004), Field Guide to Meat (Quirk, 2005), Field Guide to Herbs & Spices (Quirk, 2006), and Starting with Ingredients, and coauthor of the James Beard Award-winning cookbook Ceviche!: Seafood, Salads, and Cocktails with a Latino Twist.

Customer Reviews

Good tool for buying seafood
I have purchased several books on seafood hoping to find one that is devoted to the basics of buying seafood (intended for the seafood challenged). This is the book I was searching for ! It describes the various varieties of fish and shellfish, gives alternate names for them, tells something about them, gives ideas for preparation and recipes and tells what to look for in buying them. It is well organized by alphabetical listing of names and very easy to use. I have spent considerably more on other seafood books but this is my favorite.

portable knowledge
I had been looking for a completely portable information book on seafood. This is encyclopedic, includes recipes and sustainability factors.
It lives in my Whole Foods bags, and even provides a pleasant distraction in traffic jams.

great reference
I bought this book as part of a birthday present for my wife. It is a wonderful reference on the subject.

The book is largely a reference guide to fresh and prepared fish and shellfish (generally). It is in a standard field-guide format with a section of pictures, and a larger section describing the seafood, how to select it, preparation suggestions, etc.

This is not a "cookbook" as such. However, it is very helpful or people who may want to have such a handy reference.