The New Cleaning and Cooking Fish or Basque Kitchen

The New Cleaning and Cooking Fish

Author: Sylvia Bashlin

Learn the various methods for cleaning fish, from field dressing to filleting to cleaning. Find out how to cook your catch, from broiling to poaching to smoke cooking. Create mouthwatering appetizers, salads, soups and chowders, and main dishes such as baked walley and ratatouille.

There's over 120 different recipes, all shown beautifully in full-color photographs. Substitutions and nutritional informational is provided help make your fish cooking as simple and healthy as possible.

Interesting textbook: Food and Healing or American Diabetes Association Complete Guide to Diabetes

Basque Kitchen: Tempting Food from the Pyrenees

Author: Gerald Hirigoyen

"To know how to eat is to know enough."

-- Old Basque Saying

Nestled among the Pyrenees, on both sides of the French-Spanish border, the Basque country is renowned as much for its fine culinary traditions as for its rugged terrain and the independent spirit of its people. Basque cooks are widely considered among the best in Europe, combining their love of fresh, simple ingredients with time-honored techniques. The joy of cooking and eating are central to Basque culture. In San Sebastián and throughout the region, men belong to cooking clubs, dedicated to the preservation of their outstanding cultural and culinary heritage. Outside the cooking societies, simple family meals turn into feasts of mammoth proportions, and everywhere conversation invariably turns to good food and the pursuit of it.

The Basque Kitchen, lusciously illustrated with photographs of the Basque region as well as its famous dishes, is the first major cookbook to explore Basque cooking on both sides of the border. Basque native Gerald Hirigoyen, named one of America s best chefs by Food & Wine magazine, celebrates the food and memories of his beloved homeland. He shares recipes for his favorite Basque specialties, from traditional renditions of Salt Cod "al Pil-Pil" and Pipérade to sumptuous soups, salads, meat, poultry, game, and of course, more seafood, all built on a bounty of fresh ingredients and carefully presented for the home cook. Hirigoyen's splendid interpretations have made his two San Francisco restaurants, Fringale and Pastis, critical favorites.

NY Times Book Review

...[T]he Hirigoyens unlock many secrets of a vibrant and underdocumented style of cooking and offer many easy ways to sample its decisive flavors...

NY Times Book Review

...[T]he Hirigoyens unlock many secrets of a vibrant and underdocumented style of cooking and offer many easy ways to sample its decisive flavors...