Wednesday, January 1, 2020

Book Review: The Big 10 Fish and Seafood cookbook by Terri Dien




The Big 10 Fish and Seafood cookbook by Terri Dien
The newspaper wrapped around the fish and twine is what caught my attention from the start, 40+ years ago it's how we got our local fish, right off the boats.
Dedication and table of contents along with full page color photos start this book. Chapters are broken up into individual fish categories.
Intro talks about a lot of different things when it comes to fish: how to buy, mercury, sustainability, benefits, must have equipment, how to remove pin bones from fillets, ingredients that will enhance the flavor among other topics.
Each section has a full page color photo along with the item in detail and it's own index of recipes.
Like size of the book also it's a full 8 x 10 and you can open the book and it will stay open flat.
Each recipe starts with a title, short summary of the dish, servings, prep and cook time.
Print could be bigger and darker.
List of ingredients and each section of the dish has it's own ingredients listed. Directions are given
along with variations.
There are NO pictures of the finished dish and there is NO nutritional information.
Measurement conversion charts and a list of resources and references are listed at the end.
Index, acknowledgements and about the author are also included.
My favorite sections would be shrimp and salmon. Love that this covers fish from fresh water and salt water areas.
Valuable information about all kinds of fish.
I received this review copy from The Callisto Publisher's Club and this is my honest opinion.

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