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Dogfish. Monkfish. Stingray. Weakfish. Mahi Mahi. Orange roughy. Opakapaka. Five years ago, few of those salt water creatures would have been likely candidates for the dinner table, either at home or in restaurants. Now Americans are hooked on fish. They are ordering not only such old standards as sole, salmon, striped bass and swordfish but the more exotic species as well. Restaurants and markets across the country tally big increases in sales of shellfish and finfish. The experience of Inland Seafood Corp., a wholesale distributor of fresh and high-quality frozen fish in Atlanta, is typical. "Our sales have increased...
...transportation and refrigeration facilities improve, more varieties of fish in top condition are available all over the country. To keep supplies steady and free of pollutants, several kinds of seafoods are now successfully being farmed, among them catfish (always favored in the South and now gaining popularity up North), salmon, mussels and oysters. In addition, fish has attained gourmet status as Americans traveling abroad try it in sophisticated preparations. American chefs are challenged to develop their own savory creations. So great is the demand for skill in fish preparation that the Culinary Institute of America, in Hyde Park...
...restaurants, the curiosity is justified. Patrick Terrail, owner of Ma Maison, the Los Angeles celebrity haunt, reports that his fish sales are double those of meat. "God forbid that eight years ago I had served a raw fish in lime juice as an appetizer," he says. Today his marinated salmon in lime juice is a big seller on the posh menu...
...Sizzler, with more than 450 restaurants in the inexpensive-to-moderate price category. Says Advertising Director Don Lum: "We've seen a significant increase in fish consumption in the past two years." Their expanded line offers for between $5 and $8 complete main courses such as shrimp, lobster, crab, salmon, New Zealand whitefish, orange roughy, John Dory, hoki, halibut and swordfish. And the Dallas-based TGI Friday's Inc., with 104 locations in 31 states, now has 20 to 25 fish dishes on its menu, compared with two or three in 1977. Says Greg Dollarhyde, vice president of finance...
...outside of the futuristic new State of Illinois Center has three tiers of curving glass setbacks fanning out in a vertically striped polygon. A canopy of pink and white glass panels dresses the base; a sliced-cylinder skylight emerges at the top. Inside, in a light-filled atrium, salmon pink terraces climb for 17 stories around a circular plaza. Glass elevators rise and fall along the outside of two towers. As little Dorothy once said, "Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas any more...