Fish: Recipes and Techniques for Freshwater Fish

by Jon Wipfli, Colleen Eversman (Photographer)

From water to table, Fish—author and chef Jonathan Wipfli’s follow-up to Venison—shows you how to responsibly harvest and clean freshwater game fish throughout the seasons, and how to cook them perfectly. Be the star fisher and chef at every dinner and cookout!

Written by the author and chef behind Venison and a Minneapolis-based catering services company specializing in wild game, Fish takes readers through Jonathan Wipfli's techniques for efficiently processing and cleaning game fish, as well as a raft of 50 contemporary recipes for dishes and accompanying sides. Addressing the most popular freshwater game fish pursued by North American outdoors enthusiasts—including walleye, pike, catfish, trout, salmon, bass, panfish, and more—Fish puts a new foodie-friendly spin on game fish cookery.

All the recipes and accompanying accoutrements and sides are beautifully photographed and presented. The result is a game fish cookbook like no other, whether you're new to fishing or a veteran enthusiast.

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking

160 pages, Hardcover

Published June 11, 2019

Reviews

[Nursebookie · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved this book for many reasons: it is comprehensive, organized and an informative resource. The book is organized into three parts from the actual catching of the fish, then cleaning and preparation to the recipes and preparation of fish and crawdads. The pictures chosen were phenomenal especially with the recipes and the step by step instructions. The recipes included everything from light appetizers, to grilled and even stews, the recipes provided will be something for everyone and instructions easy enough to follow. This is something I will purchase to fish lovers and home-cooks who need fundamentals of fish cooking. This is appropriate for the home cook and advanced cooks.

Thank you to the author and publishers to allow me this ARC. I am honored to read this and give my thoughtful review.

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[Eve · Rating 4 out of 5]

Jon Wipli's Fish is a beautifully photographed and thorough guide on freshwater fish. Wipli walks you through everything you need to know about freshwater fishing: how to fish, how to clean and fillet, and recipes. It was well-organized and easy to follow.

I will admit that I am not myself a fisher, but I sure love to eat fish and our friends often leave us with packages of fish from their own excursions. So I came here for the recipes, and I was not disappointed. However, do be prepared to see recipes with seasonal ingredients, such as ramps. If you aren't keen on "fishing" for uncommon ingredients (sea what I did there?? heh...heh), then you might be disappointed. The salt, sugar, and dill cured salmon is worth the cost of the book alone, in my opinion. Such a great way to process your salmon!

Wipfli's book on freshwater fish is guaranteed to be enjoyed by the fisherman (or woman) in your life. Published today, you could order this on Amazon Prime and have in plenty of time for Father's Day.

Thank you to Jon Wipfli, Quarto Publishing Group - Harvard Common Press, and NetGalley for allowing me access of an advance copy to review. As always, all opinions are my own.

A review will be forthcoming on my blog.

[Ann T · Rating 4 out of 5]

Thank you Quatro - Harvard Common Publishing for an ARC of this book.

This was a well presented book with great photography and lots of instructions on how to actually fish for food , along with many many recipe.s. The recipes used different cooking styles and also many different ingredients. This isn’t a recipe book I would use regularly as many of the ingredients are not possible to find easily, if at all where we live. However, I would use it as a beautiful coffee table book to flick through for inspiration and beautiful scenery from a different part of the world.

Thank you for this digital ARC in return for my honest opinion.

[Caroline · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is sectioned into 3 parts; fishing, cleaning & filleting and of course the recipes. The recipes are sorted by salmon & trout, walleye & northern pike, crappie, bluegill & perch, catfish, sturgeon, muskie & whitefish and crawdads. You've got quite a variety here, with types of dishes and difficulty level. It's not a big book, but I think it's enough to teach you things and make you creative.
I'd say it's relatively american (I'm from Norway, so our world of fish is completely different), and this guy seems to be really fond of grapeseed oil (which I seriously had to google and then translate, cause that's not really a thing here), haha.

[Ileana Renfroe · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a delightful and easy to follow fish cookbook.

Fish, is beautifully illustrated with detailed recipes that anyone can make. Yummy!

Synopsis:
Written by the author and chef behind Venison and a Minneapolis-based catering services company specializing in wild game, Fish takes readers through Jonathan Wipfli's techniques for efficiently processing and cleaning game fish, as well as a raft of 50 contemporary recipes for dishes and accompanying sides. Addressing the most popular freshwater game fish pursued by North American outdoors enthusiasts—including walleye, pike, catfish, trout, salmon, bass, panfish, and more—Fish puts a new foodie-friendly spin on game fish cookery.

[Kristin · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked that this book covered both cleaning (aka gutting, scaling and so on) and recipes. The recipes themselves looked great and I would love to try several of them. I would think this book would be suitable for both those who like to eat fish and those who like to go fishing.

[Polly Krize · Rating 3 out of 5]

I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

From walleye to pike to trout, this is such an important book for anyone wishing to clean and prepare almost any freshwater fish. Mouthwatering ideas and recipes make this a must for your book shelf.

[Randal White · Rating 4 out of 5]

Beautifully photographed, and loads of easy to follow recipes! Will definitely be going on my cookbook shelf to refer to over and over again.

[Amber Boos · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love fish and am always looking for new ways to cook it. I enjoyed the recipes that I did make, however I felt that there were too many with hard to find ingredients. I also did not really need to know how to clean wild caught fish. I am more of an on-the-go, dinner-in-a-hurry kind of cook so this one just wasn't for me. It is beautifully photographed and well-written and I woukld definitely recommend it for the fishing enthusiast or serious cook.

Thank you to #NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC.
I will post to other review sites on the June 11th release date.

[Justkeepreading · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ohhh I love fish and all these recipes in this book look amazing. I can’t wait to get stuck in and try them all. My mouth is watering already.