Freshwater Fish Cooking

Freshwater Fish Cooking: The Complete Guide to Carp, Catla, Catfish and River Fish

The carp came up out of the canal water silver and struggling, and my first thought was not about sport. It was about dinner. Fish from rivers, canals, lakes and ponds is not a substitute for sea fish and it is not a lesser fish. It is its own subject, with its own flavour, its own bones and its own rules, and it is the subject my kitchen knows best. I have spent eight years fishing canals and more than twenty years cooking what those waters give us, and carp,…