Fresh Fish: a Fearless Guide to Grilling, Shucking, Roasting, Poaching, and Sauteing Seafood

Along with 175 amazing recipes, this cookbook shows how to buy the best seafood and gives easy-to-follow instructions on the essential ways to prepare it. Cooking fish and other seafood at home is much easier than you think! Fresh Fish offers simple step-by-step instructions for all of the essential cooking methods, including baking, pan-frying, braising, broiling, steaming, poaching, roasting, marinating, and grilling — along with 175 mouthwatering recipes that bring out the best in everything from fish fillets and whole fish to shrimp, mussels, lobster, clams, calamari, and more. You’ll also learn how to buy fish (even whole fish) with confidence, how to serve fish raw, how to clean freshly dug clams, and much more. Beautiful photography celebrates both the food and the lazy charm of summers at the beach; this is a delightful read as well as the cookbook you need to easily enjoy your favorite seafood at home. Praise for Fresh Fish “You can practically smell the salty air and fell the sand between your toes while reading this charming ode to seashore life with its winning recipes.” —Vicky Lowry, Features Director, Elle Decor “Thompson’s cookbook delivers deliciously, with coastal recollections, gorgeous photography, and amazing recipes.” —Steele Marcoux, Editor, Coastal Living “This wonderful collection of approachable, inventive recipes captures the spirit of beach living and highlights the bounty of the sea while demystifying how to cook fish.” —Karen J. Covey, Founder/Publisher of The Coastal Table magazine “Fresh Fish is more than a cookbook—it brims over with details and memories of life by the sea.” —Lincoln Russell, photographer