Shellfish Sushi and Sashimi Tart Ceviche and Kinilaw Salty Poke and Lomi Cooking Fish and Shellfish How Heat Transforms Raw Fish Preparations for Cooking Techniques for Cooking Fish and Shellfish Fish Mixtures Shellfish and Their Special Qualities Crustaceans: Shrimps, Lobsters, Crabs, and Relatives Molluscs: Clams, Mussels, Oysters, Scallops, Squid, and Relatives Other Invertebrates: Sea Urchins Preserved Fish and Shellfish Dried Fish Salted Fish Fermented Fish Smoked Fish Four-Way Preservation: Japanese Katsuobushi Marinated Fish Canned Fish Fish Eggs Salt Transforms Egg Flavor and Texture Caviar Fish and shellfish are foods from the earth’s other world, its vast water underworld Dry land makes up less than a third of the planet’s surface, and it’s a tissue-thin home compared to the oceans, whose floor plunges as much as miles below the waves The oceans are voluminous and ancient, the “primordial soup” in which all life began, and in which the human imagination has found rich inspiration for myths of destruction and creation, of metamorphosis and rebirth The creatures that live in this cold, dark, dense, airless place are unmatched among our food animals in their variety and their strangeness Our species has long nourished itself on fish and shellfish, and it built nations on them ... human imagination has found rich inspiration for myths of destruction and creation, of metamorphosis and rebirth The creatures that live in this cold, dark, dense, airless place are unmatched among our food animals in their variety and their strangeness... Salt Transforms Egg Flavor and Texture Caviar Fish and shellfish are foods from the earth’s other world, its vast water underworld Dry land makes up less than a third of the planet’s surface, and it’s a tissue-thin home compared... surface, and it’s a tissue-thin home compared to the oceans, whose floor plunges as much as miles below the waves The oceans are voluminous and ancient, the “primordial soup” in which all life began, and in which the human imagination has found rich inspiration