Fish by Mark Bittman

Fish by Mark Bittman

From New York Times bestselling author Mark Bittman, Fish: The Complete Guide to Buying and Cooking is a book that simplifies, once and for all, the process of preparing fish.

Organized in an easy-reference, A-Z format, Fish gives you the culinary lowdown on seventy kinds of fish and shellfish commonly found in American supermarkets and fish stores. Each entry in Bittman's book describes how the fish is sold (fillets, steaks, whole, salted), other names it goes by, how the fish should look, and buying tips.

Fish begins with general guidelines on how to store, prepare, and cook fish, whether sautéing, frying, grilling, or smoking, and you will find easy-to-follow illustrations of such important basics as how to gut and fillet a fish. Fish also includes up-to-the-minute information on the health benefits of fish in our diet. In addition, there are more than five hundred recipes and variations, all of which use low-fat, high-flavor ingredients to accent the intrinsic natures of the individual fish rather than mask them. And the vast majority of the recipes are ready in less than thirty minutes!

Mark Bittman is a nationally recognized expert in food and the author of The Minimalist, a New York Times weekly cooking column that has spawned multiple books. How to Cook Everything(TM), his best-selling cookbook, earned both the Julia Child (IACP) and James Beard prizes and is widely regarded as the bible of contemporary home cuisine.