Product Description

When her sons inherited their father's childhood home, once a commercial building for storing and packing pilchards, in a Cornish fishing village, Lindsey Bareham thought it would be a nice idea to record some of the recipes and memories of this extraordinary place. It started as a notebook for her sons' eyes only, with lists of favourite ways of cooking mackerel, monkfish and sole and how to make mayonnaise to go with the gift of a handsome crab or crayfish, but then it took on its own momentum and became this very special book, full of recollections and anecdotes and fabulous holiday food.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #180023 in Books
• Published on: 2006-05-04
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 416 pages

Synopsis
When her sons inherited their father's childhood home, once a commercial building for storing and packing pilchards, in a Cornish fishing village, Lindsey Bareham thought it would be a nice idea to record some of the recipes and memories of this extraordinary place. It started as a notebook for her sons' eyes only, with lists of favourite ways of cooking mackerel, monkfish and sole and how to make mayonnaise to go with the gift of a handsome crab or crayfish, but then it took on its own momentum and became this very special book, full of recollections and anecdotes and fabulous holiday food.

About the Author
Lindsey Bareham made her name as a restaurant critic and food writer. Twenty years of reviewing many of the best and some of the worst restaurants provided her with a unique background for cookery writing. She has written ten cookery books including A Celebration of Soup, The Big Red Book of Tomatoes and Just One Pot and she was the Evening Standard's cookery columnist for seven years. She is now a freelance food writer and broadcaster, regularly contributing to Saga magazine, the Mail on Sunday and Radio 4.

Customer Reviews

Fabulous Fish Store
Lindsay is quite simply one of the finest food writers around, and The Fish Store must be her most personal and perfect offering. It is a delightful mix of recollections and recipes of a lifetime's holidays spent at the Fish Store in Mousehole, a Cornwall gem. There are numerous tempting fish recipes here, but also many luscious seasonal veggie recipes, too. For anyone who loves Cornwall, this is an evocative piece of work, and for those who have yet to visit, it will charm you into making your first pilgrimage.

Wonderful Book
This was an absolutely fantastic buy - I am constantly dipping into it for recipes and it is also a pleasure to read in itself.

Much more than a cookbook
and not just fish.

Memories of a house in `Mousehole`- an idyllic fishing village in Cornwall, which spans three generations.

`This book started out as a tribute to the memories of a remarkable house with an interesting background, but took its own momentum, telling the story of my own on-off and on-again relationship with the Fish Store and the village of Mousehole.........
Although the recipes are all associated with the Fish Store, it isn't necessary to be by the sea in Cornwall to enjoy cooking them.........LB/August 2005'

And it is wonderful that Lindsey went to press to produce this marvellous book for all to savour!

As well as an inspiring collection of fish recipes, there are mouth-watering ideas for al fresco lunches, hearty autumn and winter meals and enticing puddings.

410 matt pages, split over main chapters:-

Fish
Seafood
Eggs
Chicken
Lamb
Vegetables
Puddings

with a 35 page introduction, describing the history and as it is today:-

`These days the Fish Store is one big open-plan living space with three large windows looking out to sea.
We watch the fishing boats chugging past as the transforming light plays trick with the view. On sunny days the magical light turns the sea into shimmering gold and in the winter, when the storm winds howl across the bay, the dark, angry sea is covered with white horses.
I love the place whatever the weather and whatever the time of year, but when the sun streams through the open front door and there is the promise of a crab picnic and fresh fish for supper, there is nowhere I would rather be.
Christmas is a special time in Mousehole.
The harbour is filled with floating light and a Celtic cross twinkles from St Clement's Isle - a small rocky island where once an ancient hermit was said to live - which lies a few hundred yards from the shore.
The night before Christmas Eve is celebrated as Tom `Bawcott's Eve' in the pub, when a humongous `StarGazy Pie`, the legendary Mousehole pie with pilchards poking through the top, is served to patrons of the Ship Inn on the quayside.
With the Fish Store windows open wide, we can hear the open-air carol service in the harbour as we sit by the fire and look out to sea with delicious cooking smells whirling around the barn-like room.........'

And, with such descriptive writing throughout, Lindsey shows more than just great culinary writing talent.

Fish information, which runs until page 165, includes:-

Oily Fish
Flat Fish
Flaky Fish
Inshore Fish
Fish without Bones
Crab, Lobster and Crayfish
Limpets, Winkles, Mussels, Scallops and Squid

Preparing, filleting, butterfly-filleting, dealing with a live crab, (crayfish and lobster), buying, dressing and picking cooked crab.......it's all here.

Each chapter has a title page listing any sub-sections, and the recipes.
Each recipe is well laid out with the title, number of servings, an opening note, list of ingredients and a clear method.
Interspersed with mainly on-location shots, just a handful of finished dishes and some charming black and white line drawings which open each chapter.

A small taste of the `Fish Recipes' included:-

Grilled Herring Fillets with Dijon Mustard
StarGazy Pie
Marinated Mackerel Sushi
Asian Fish in a Packet with Basmati Rice
Lemon Sole à la Meunière
Smoked Haddock Mornay
Huss with Lemon and Parsley
Fish Stock
Cod with White Beans
Roast Haddock with a Potato Crust
Party Fish Pie
Kedgeree
Snotched Red Mullet with Garlic Butter
Braised John Dory with Sorrel
Roast Monkfish Tail with Garlic and Onion
Crab and Cucumber Linguine
Lobster with Mayonnaise
Thai Mussels

Alternative fish types given and variations, if applicable.

Other recipes include:-

James Bond's Scrambled Eggs
Mayonnaise
Quiche Lorraine
Pot-roasted Chicken with Onions
A Simple Chicken Curry
Vietnamese Chicken Salad
Arabian Shepherd's Pie
Desert Lamb with brown Rice Pilaff
Potato Pithiviers
Spinach Gratin
Cornish Pasty
Sweetcorn Chowder
Roast Tomato Soup with Saffron and Honey
Garlic Bread
Oven Ratatouille
Sloe Gin
Christmas Baked Apples with Run Butter
Tarte Tatin
Lavender Pears with White Wine
Red Plums with Port
Roast Peaches with Amaretti
Treacle Tart
Crème Caramel
Egg Custard for Pouring

The book finishes with a bibliography and a complete index.