Word: redfish
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...professional bass fishing there are two pro circuits and more than 25 minor leagues, as well as leagues for walleye in the north. The FLW has added redfish and kingfish tournaments as it expands into saltwater pursuits. It underwrote 214 events this year, handing out more than $30 million in cash and prizes. That's up from 135 in 2000. Sponsors continue to line up, checkbook in hand...
...might be expected, a specialized definition comes from the most highly specialized champion of American cooking, Paul Prudhomme, who adapts Cajun and Creole classics at K-Paul's. His dishes of spice-blackened redfish, jalapeño cheese bread, flounder stuffed with seafood, and crawfish "popcorn" have inspired a virtual cult of imitators such as the Ritz Cafe in West Los Angeles, a branch of which will open on Park Avenue in New York this fall, the Atchafalaya River Cafe in Houston, Memphis in New York and Lafitte in Washington. "The food we call Creole and Cajun is the most American...
...grocery stores, and a frenzy of new restaurants swept across the land. The cooking of the Southwest began to eclipse Cajun fare as our high-status regional cuisine--small wonder, when the gumbos, jambalayas and red beans of Louisiana became overworked into clichés. Its most overrated specialty, blackened redfish, is a culinary travesty. Scorched spices encrust the fish and mask its delicate flavor. There were contradictions, too, as Americans pumped iron to stay thin, then tried to maintain status by eating In. This was also the year of VCR cooking cassettes and prepared convenience foods, summoning images...
...Holding a fish previously caught by Gerald Ford b) Hypnotized by the haunting voice of Billy Bass c) Showing off a redfish he caught with his father d) The first man to accidentally stab a fish in the mouth...
...people have shed the fantasy that the sea can inexhaustibly provide food, dilute endless pollution and accept unlimited trash. In 1996 the U.S. passed the Sustainable Fisheries Act, which mandates rules against overfishing--a recognition that protecting sea life is good business. Some fish, such as striped bass and redfish, are recovering because of catch limits. Alaskan, Falkland, Australian and New Zealand longline boats are taking care not to kill albatrosses. Turtles are being saved by trapdoors in shrimp nets...