 | Field Guide to Seafood: How to Identify, Select, and Prepare Virtually Every Fish and Shellfish at the Market by Aliza Green
Buy new: $11.96 / Used from: $6.86 Green's field guides stick to a useful formula: physically small books with huge amounts of content, not only on what to look for, what it might be called, but also how to prepare it. They're like an encyclopedic thesaurus for shopping.
|
 | Fish & Shellfish: The Cook's Indispensable Companion by James Peterson
Buy new: $30.60 / Used from: $11.36 This shares similar content with the other books, but is organized like Julia Childe's classic 'The Way to Cook'. That means there are expert tips scattered throughout the main body and recipes, just waiting to be discovered. Peterson's sauce book has received wide acclaim so I can only assume the sauce section is authoritative.
|
 | Rick Stein's Complete Seafood by Rick Stein
Buy used from: $28.78 After the introduction, the book starts rapid-fire coverage of all the methods which you might need to prepare fish. The excellent color photos make the steps easy to follow along, but the overall presentation of the book reminds me of an episode of 'Naked Chef'.
|
 | Fish: The Complete Guide to Buying and Cooking by Mark Bittman
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $6.25 Has an excellent introduction covering the basics of choosing a fish market.
|
 | The New Legal Sea Foods Cookbook by Roger Berkowitz
Buy new: $17.82 / Used from: $2.64 |
 | The New York Times Seafood Cookbook: More than 250 Recipes Collected from the Pages of The New York Times
Buy new: $19.80 / Used from: $8.41 |
Listmania!
