Scottish Seafood

Name: Scottish Seafood
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ISBN: 9781841589756

ISBN-10: 1841589756

ISBN-13: 9781841589756

Edition: 2011

Authors: Catherine Brown

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The sea surrounding the long Scottish coastline contains dozens of species of fish, many of which are exported to European countries where they are avidly sought after. Yet in Scotland and the UK generally, our consumption of fish is centred round half a dozen or so species, stocks of most of which are dangerously low. A fresh approach to cooking and eating the seafood from Scottish waters is long overdue. Scotland has a wonderful but neglected heritage of gathering and cooking the fruits of the sea, be they seaweeds like carrageen, dulse and tangle, shellfish like limpets, mussels, razor-shell clams, crabs and lobsters, or a whole range of fish species. In this major new cookery book,…

Book details

List price: $21.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Birlinn, Limited
Publication date: 10/1/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.20" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.760
Language: English



List of Plates


Seafood: Early History



Seashore Food Search


First Settlers on Applecross Peninsula, around 7000 BC



Cooking in Pots


Farmer-Fishers on Orkney around 3500 BC



Fishing and Preserving


Norse Settlers, Shetland, around 900 AD



Salmon Fishing


Fish-Trappers at the Coast, near a Salmon River, around 1200



Rich Fishing Grounds


Dutch Fishermen in the North Sea around 1600



Herring Fishing


Crofter-Fishing - Loch Fyne around 1840


Early Recipes


Seafood Regions


East and West Regional Heritage


East



East Coast



Firth of Forth



Orkney


West



Shetland



North West Coast and Islands



South West -Argyll, Firth of Clyde and Solway Firth


Regional Recipes


East


West


Seafood Future



Fishermen



Seafood Farmers



Buyers and Sellers



Fisher-Foragers


Seafood Cooking



… basics



… flavourings



… in a liquid



… under a grill



… on an open fire



… in the oven



… in fat or oil



… to serve cold



… to preserve



… with edible seaweeds


Seafood Identification: Buying Advice and Conservation Status


Bibliography


Notes


Directory of Information, Organisations and Seafood Suppliers


Thanks To…


Index