A healthful, dramatically simplified book on cooking techniques for preparing low cholesterol, low calorie seafood, with over 500 recipes. This comprehensive, classic cookbook includes recipes for eighty-five different kinds of shellfish, saltwater, and freshwater fish, including chowders and fish stews, sauces and stuffings, as well as information on how to find the best fresh and frozen seafood on the market.
Healthy, accessible, and completely revised and updated, James Beard's New Fish Cookery a "must for any good cook's collection" ( Dallas Times Herald).
Until his death in 1985, James Beard was the nation's most acclaimed chef and food writer. The founder and director of the celebrated cooking classes in New York that still bear his name, Beard wrote James Beard's New Fish Cookery, The James Beard Cookbook, Menus for Entertaining, Beard on Bread, Beard on Food, and other works on the gastronomic arts.