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From its rivers, lakes and offshore waters, Southerners have developed a piscine cuisine of staggering diversity. Snapper and pompano are the aristocrats of fishdom. The Gulf Coast's pearly shrimp, eaten raw or smothered in the fiery remoulade sauce of a New Orleans restaurant, are as memorable as Proustian madeleines. No other cuisine in the world has so amply shared or sherried a dish like Southern crawfish bisque. Inland, Southern hams and bacons are unrivaled in the Western world...
...volume was more than 300,000 Ibs. His biggest breakthrough came after he invited the New Orleans school board to lunch and served them "fish Creole." When he identified the succulent dish as shark, selling for only 75? per lb., v. $3.50 per lb. for pompano or snapper, he landed a three-month contract to sell the school system 40,000 Ibs. Says Orleans Parish Food Buyer Jeanne Elliott: "It's about as popular as spaghetti and meat sauce or veal parmigiana," adding, "Of course, we just call shark 'seafood' on the menus." Battistella is also successfully...
...According to the CDC, one California man pulled one of the worms out of his throat ten days after dining on sashimi prepared from raw white sea bass. A California boy coughed up one of the parasites a few days after eating homemade ceviche, a dish of raw red snapper marinated in lemon or lime juice. Their unnerving experience could have been avoided entirely. Both freezing and cooking kill Anisakidae...
Twenty minutes later Frank Fisher and the red snapper were in his kitchen. The fish was unwrapped and Fisher was exasperated. He had specifically directed the counterman not to cut off the red snapper's tail--only its head--but the fish was distinctly abbreviated at both ends...
Before Fisher cooked that red snapper or walked through Brattle Square that Friday afternoon he had been doing other things that characterize him better, if only because he left them. That morning he had been in Northrop Frye's course on the typology of the Bible--hence the Bible under his right arm--and the day before he had been at work on a wooden creation he calls a sculpture--hence...