Cookbooks, cooking reads, and books about food
The California Seafood Cookbook: A Cook’s Guide to the Fish and Shellfish of California, the Pacific Coast, and Beyond by Isaac Cronin, Jay Harlow and Paul Johnson is a cookbook filled with recipes that “tend toward simple approaches to a limited number of ingredients rather …
Saltbox Seafood Joint Cookbook is written by Ricky Moore and contains the history of and great recipes from his Saltbox Seafood Joint restaurants in North Carolina. Ama Saltbox Seafood Joint Ricky Moore grew up in eastern North Carolina, joining the military out of high school …
Seafood published by Sally Murphy Morris is a small book filled with basic fish cookery. This book was published in 1979, and has recipes, prep and cleaning instructions for different types of fish and seafood, and a chart for fish substitutions by family and species. …
This week will be Lobster at Home by Jasper White. White is a notable authority on New England food and the history of seafood in that area. Printed in 1998, this a pretty great guide for everything revolving around Maine lobsters, Homarus americanus. This lobster is …
This little gem of a cookbook was published in 1966 by Lawton Carver, a sports writer turned food editor and restaurateur who wrote his food works under the pen name “Prudence Penny.” The Compact Book of Fish and Game Cookery features recipes from all kinds …
The Great American Seafood Cookbook by Susan Herrmann Loomis was published in 1988 and in her introduction she talks about the many fishing trips she’s been on sourcing different seafoods and seeing how they were caught. I liked reading this as some cookbook authors collect …
Barton Seaver practices what he talks about with fish sustainability and cooking: he’s a National Geographic fellow increasing awareness to ocean issues and is a practicing chef. His dedication to both industries has made For Cod and Country more than a cookbook. It provides tips …
Every once in a while I’ll put an obscure recipe on Friday on my Old School Pastry blog. The entries are called ‘Foodie Fridays’. Today was as odd as usual, with whale steaks as the course being prepared. The recipe was published by the United …
Cleaning and Cooking Fish by Sylvia Bashline Cleaning and Cooking Fish by Sylvia Bashline is part of The Hunting and Fishing Library, and contains everything you need to know about how to prepare fish, including cleaning, filleting, and preserving. While this book was printed in …