How to Cook Fish (c. 1900)

Nonfiction, Food & Drink
Cover of the book How to Cook Fish (c. 1900) by Alice Green, B&R Samizdat Express
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Author: Alice Green ISBN: 9781455300358
Publisher: B&R Samizdat Express Publication: December 15, 2009
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Alice Green
ISBN: 9781455300358
Publisher: B&R Samizdat Express
Publication: December 15, 2009
Imprint:
Language: English
"An unshelled fish is lively and elusive past the power of words to portray, and in this, undoubtedly, lies its desirability. People will travel for two nights and a day to some spot where all unshelled fish has once been seen, taking 59.99 worth of fishing tackle, "marked down from 60.00 for to-day only," rent a canoe, hire a guide at more than human life is worth in courtsof law, and work with dogged patience from gray dawn till sunset. And for what? For one small bass which could have been bought at any trustworthy market for sixty-five cents, or, possibly, some poor little kitten-fish-offspring of a catfish--whose mother's milk is not yet dry upon its lips..."
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"An unshelled fish is lively and elusive past the power of words to portray, and in this, undoubtedly, lies its desirability. People will travel for two nights and a day to some spot where all unshelled fish has once been seen, taking 59.99 worth of fishing tackle, "marked down from 60.00 for to-day only," rent a canoe, hire a guide at more than human life is worth in courtsof law, and work with dogged patience from gray dawn till sunset. And for what? For one small bass which could have been bought at any trustworthy market for sixty-five cents, or, possibly, some poor little kitten-fish-offspring of a catfish--whose mother's milk is not yet dry upon its lips..."

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