On Food and Cooking

White   perch Morone    americana

Hybrid  striped

bass

Morone  saxtalis    x   Morone

chrysops

Icefish

The “cod icefish” family is a group of large,
sedentary plankton-eaters that live in the cold
deep waters off Antarctica. The best known of
them is the fatty “Chilean sea bass,” an
inaccurate but more palatable commercial
name for the Patagonian toothfish
(Dissostichus eleginoides), which can reach
150 lb/70 kg. Its fat is located in a layer under
the skin, in the chambered bones, and
dispersed among the muscle fibers: toothfish
flesh can be nearly 15% fat. It wasn’t until the
mid-1980s that cooks came to know and
appreciate this lusciously rich, large-flaked
fish, which is unusually tolerant of
overcooking. Like the orange roughy and
other deepwater creatures, the toothfish is