Posts Tagged: fish

  • Four bottles of fish sauce to show umami.

    Umami and fermented fish sauces

    I got into trouble this week from my wife. I had to undertake some maintenance errands as well as provisioning for and cooking dinner. Short of time I took a photo of the evening’s selected recipe and went shopping. In receiving “feedback”, I was informed that the pantry was already brimming with bottles of Nam […]

  • book by Australian French cook, Dianne Holenghue, A Lifetime of Cooking, Teaching and Writing from The French Kitchen, because it had a recipe for cooking bouillabaisse with Australian fish.

    Something fishy about National Bouillabaisse Day

    Today, 14 December, is “National” Bouillabaisse Day. The fishy thing about National Bouillabaisse Day is that I am not sure entirely whether it is National Bouillabaisse Day in France, the United States or indeed anywhere. I can’t possibly believe it is National Bouillabaisse Day in Australia because we don’t even celebrate National Vegemite Day. I […]

  • Pelagic means of the open sea and comes from the Greek word pelagos for sea. These are the different pelagic zones.

    My discontent with abyssopelagic

    I have a fondness for the adjective pelagic. It means “of the open sea” and comes from the Greek word pelagos for sea. It shares a little with the similar Greek word for the mysterious sea people who lived in Greece before the Dorians, the Pelasgians, who came from no one knows where and then […]