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Consider the Eel (Paperback, New edition)
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Consider the Eel (Paperback, New edition)
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Journalist Richard Schweid first learned the strange facts of the
freshwater eel's life from a fisherman in a small Spanish town just
south of Valencia. ""The eeler who explained the animal's life
cycle to me did so as he served up an eel he had just taken from a
trap, killed, cleaned, and cooked in olive oil in an earthenware
dish,"" writes Schweid. ""I ate it with a chunk of fresh, crusty
bread. It was delicious. I was immediately fascinated."" As this
engaging culinary and natural history reveals, the humble eel is
indeed an amazing creature. Every European and American eel begins
its life in the Sargasso Sea--a vast, weedy stretch of deep
Atlantic waters between Bermuda and the Azores. Larval eels drift
for up to three years until they reach the rivers of North America
or Europe, where they mature and live as long as two decades before
returning to the Sargasso to mate and die. Eels have never been
bred successfully in captivity. Consulting fisherfolk, cooks, and
scientists, Schweid takes the reader on a global tour to reveal the
economic and gastronomic importance of eel in places such as
eastern North Carolina, Spain, Northern Ireland, England, and
Japan. (While this rich yet mild-tasting fish has virtually
disappeared from U.S. tables, over $2 billion worth of eel is still
eagerly consumed in Europe and Asia each year.) The book also
includes recipes, both historic and contemporary, for preparing
eel.
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