How to Cook Fish

"How to Cook Fish" is a cookbook devoted to the preparation of fish dishes, particularly the unshelled variety, and drawing out the culinary differences between different varieties. As the author explains, «Having caught your fish, you may cook him in a thousand ways, but it is doubtful whether, even with the finest sauce, a pompano will taste half as good as the infantile muskellunge, several pounds under the legal weight, fried unskilfully in pork fat by a horny-handed woodsman, kneeling before an open fire…»