Archive for the ‘ fish ’ Category
So nice to be back to the blog after such a long time! Especially with a couple of pics such as these. For those who want to the get the full story of Monbiot’s fishing off the British coast from a canoe, here is the link to his piece from The Guardian In a nutshell, [ READ MORE ]
First of all some troubleshooting about Phase 2: it emrged from my correspondence with Mr. Tanaka that he uses thin salt instead of coarse salt and that I should have not dried my fish so thoroughly before salting them. Salt crystals make the fish more dry (especially if I dried it out already after washing [ READ MORE ]
I have been waiting since 2007 to make this: the first European version of the Japanese grandfather of sushi. Nowadays people know sushi as boiled rice slighty flavored with vinegar, pressed into a small mound and topped with raw fish. In fact, it is the fish – from sea bass to sea urchin – that [ READ MORE ]
Tench is a small fish living in ponds. I placed five in my brother’s pond yesterday and I really hope they will find there a suitable home to live and prosper… I also wanted to see what tench would taste like cooked. The raw eggs, color green, are just delicious, better than any silly caviar [ READ MORE ]
Two years a go I spent a month traveling in Japan and tracking down several foods I found particularly interesting. One of the highlights of my trip was the work I did around funazushi, which has been documented in an article I wrote for “Slowfood”. Funazushi is the ancestor of today’s sushi. In a bizarre [ READ MORE ]
The led sign on the Brussels Stock Exchange is part of Cimatics’ (www.cimatics.be) contribution to a local festival about French language in the city. It consists of an sms conversation cum seduction attempt broken up onto different buildings. The choice of the Stock Exchange was a last-minute choice, facilitated by the presence of metal bars [ READ MORE ]
Some may find it extravagant to have a five course dinner on a Tuesday night but I find that if the motive is right and inspiration rolling… Levanto anchovies on toast - Potato, garlic, blood oranges and saffron vichyssoise – this is a recipe I got from Binita Walia a long time ago. It’s my [ READ MORE ]
…so ran the title of Louis Bunuel’s biography and also the title of Gerrit Messiaen’s film on Frans Bouyens. I never managed to finish off Bunuel’s book but certainly marveled at the detailed description he gave of his favorite cocktail – Martini Dry – and the crucial role a couple of drops of Noilly Prat [ READ MORE ]
I learnt the meaning of the word “nombe” in the shinto temple on mount Haguro, in Northern Japan. I had the bright idea of getting there at the end of March, thinking that my guidebook was just displaying the usual Japanese hyper-prudence when it stated that the mountains “were closed off to the public until [ READ MORE ]
Lately I have been writing a lot about Portugal. I admit being slightly obsessed with the “imaginaire culinarie” of that nation to the point that a day does not feel complete unless I add some reflection about it. Are Portuguese people of the sea or people of the land? Chicken or fish? Empada (de galinha) [ READ MORE ]
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