December 2009 Archives

Salty snapper

I used to call myself a sushitarian. That is, I loved to eat raw fish but didn't particularly like cooked fish. In San Francisco it was easy to assess oneself in this manner, with sushi bars on every 3rd corner of the city (including a nice one the very block we lived on). In New Zealand, however, sushi is not so abundant. So the other day at the waterfront farmer market when Lillian asked to get a fish from one of the boats that pulls up and sells its wares, I thought why not?