Marinated Fish
Canned Fish
Fish Eggs
Salt Transforms Egg Flavor and Texture
Caviar
Fish and shellfish are foods from the earth’s
other world, its vast water underworld. Dry
land makes up less than a third of the planet’s
surface, and it’s a tissue-thin home compared
to the oceans, whose floor plunges as much as
7 miles below the waves. The oceans are
voluminous and ancient, the “primordial
soup” in which all life began, and in which the
human imagination has found rich inspiration
for myths of destruction and creation, of
metamorphosis and rebirth. The creatures that
live in this cold, dark, dense, airless place are
unmatched among our food animals in their
variety and their strangeness.
Our species has long nourished itself on
fish and shellfish, and it built nations on them