A Cook's Notebook: King Mackerel - The Fish That Shouldn't Have Been
Series: A Cook's Notebook
From: Ali Berlow
Length: 00:03:12
A Cook's Notebook - reflections on food and cooking in our kitchens and in our lives - airs weekly on WAMC
King Mackerel aired in Aug. 2003 on WCAI
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A Cook's Notebook - reflections on food and cooking in our kitchens and in our lives - airs weekly on WAMC King Mackerel aired in Aug. 2003 on WCAI PROMOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST Accompanying recipes available at www.cooksnotebook.com
Transcript
You know how some people can touch the simplest thing and turn it into something else altogether - and it becomes a moment, a study in unexpected beauty and grace? I get that feeling when I come across a pile of rocks balancing in the sand on a deserted beach. Or when I suddenly really see (it seems like for the first time) the intricate pattern in the grain of a hand hewed wooden oar.
I was struck with this same wonder by the artistry in a photograph of a dead fish. It was the picture of what dinner was going to be that night.
The photo was unadorned - yet beautiful. It was only a record of a fisherman's catch - a King Mackerel and it was taped to the bag of its fillets. It was caught off State Beach - which in itself was unusual since the fish was so far out of its normal habitat - the warm waters off the coast of North Carolina and down to Florida.
As the fisherman tells it,...
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Clay Rose
Posted on August 09, 2004 at 09:41 PM | Permalink
Review of A Cook's Notebook: King Mackerel - The Fish That Shouldn't Have Been
The detail in this story is great. The early descriptions of the fish are almost disgusting, however, the same fish becomes very appealing in a space of less than a minute when the narrator is describing cooking it.