Tuesday, 19 February 2008

2006_06_01_archive



Convergence

Although Marian Burros doesn't really go into detail on joys of

mackerel -- which are manifold, at least for Atlantic mackerel -- she

does (inadvertently) bring up the problems with eating down on the

food chain, explained in a heroically discursive post two years ago.

How did I write all that? Problem: once humans really start competing

with big pelagic fish for dinner, whatever we haven't already fished

out of existence will be doubly fucked.

Coincidentally, my "solution" then (there is of course no solution

except the chance that your own mortality will arrive before the

oceans') was Colman Andrews's anchovy spines, which I still endorse.

Just to prove that I do like the guy. I'm sure it's superfluous to

tell you to buy the book.

Furthermore, I've got some (sustainably fished, local, montessori)

sturgeon salting in the fridge wrapped in lemon leaves, inspired by

Saveur's latest Sorrento article (I swear they did another one in the

last 5 years or so... I guess I could look it up in that sexy new

recipe index... or you could). I can confirm that the mozzarella

grilled thusly is indeed "the bomb."


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