This beautifully presented title offers handy tips and advice to help get the most out of seafood. Double page spreads on particular ingredients and recipes are featured.

From crab cakes in a New York eatery, to moules mariniere in a French bistro, or salty fish and chips on a windy boardwalk, seafood is deliciously at home anywhere. Today, caviar is a costly extravagance, and fish is a highlight on pricey restaurant menus, so it is hard to imagine that seafood was once poor man's fare. But tastes and values have changed and The Essential Seafood Cookbook - with over 600 full-color photographs - shows how fresh seafood now enjoys respect and popularity around the world.

The Essential Seafood Cookbook will help you to create fabulous dishes such as Bouillabaisse, Blackened Fish, Shrimp Gumbo, and much more.

From sea to supper—75 sophisticated, yet simple, delicious seafood cookbook recipes Like the sea itself, cooking seafood can be quite intimidating—consider this your life raft. Dedicated to the home chef, the Essential Seafood Cookbook is full of recipes from the deep that allow you to recreate restaurant-quality dishes in your own home through straightforward, creative, and approachable techniques. Use the simple, step-by-step instructions to whip up meals using classic seafood ingredients for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. You'll also learn best practices for selecting and storing a wide variety of seafood choices, different cooking methods like poaching and pan roasting, as well as some must-haves for elevating your fare from ordinary to extraordinary. The Essential Seafood Cookbook includes: Omega 3 power—Discover 75 truly tasty recipes that are loaded with health benefits from helping to prevent heart disease and promoting weight loss to improving cognitive skills. Mix it up—Feel free to switch up some of your favorites with easy substitution options provided in this go-to seafood cookbook. Environmentally conscious—Use the buying guide for tips on purchasing sustainable seafood. Bring the best flavors of the ocean straight to your kitchen with the Essential Seafood Cookbook.

This tantalizing array of outstanding fish and shellfish recipes draws on the abundance of the Pacific Northwest's ocean harvest and the region's long tradition -- begun over 100 years ago at Jake's Famous Crawfish Restaurant in Portland, Oregon -- of cooking the very freshest seafood with simple techniques and innovative ingredients. Filled with advice on choosing, storing, and preparing a wide variety of fish and shellfish and generously illustrated with full-color photographs, Jakes Seafood Cookbook is an essential collection of spectacular dishes for novice and expert alike.