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Fresh Striped Bass - A delicacy since colonial times.

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The Basse is one of the best fishes in the Countrey, and though men are soone wearied with other fish, yet are they never with Basse. It is a delicate, fine, fat, fast fish...pleasant to the pallat, and wholesome to the stomach.
(New England’s Prospects, William Wood, London, 1634)
” from The Encyclopedia of Fish Cookery by McClane & deZanger. 

 

 

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Striped Bass Nutrition Facts

 in 1957 when her Majesty Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip dined at the Waldorf Astoria , Claude Philippe, the French Chef had 4,500 pounds of striped bass prepared for the royal feast.
Monsieur Philippe... presented the fish with a champagne sauce surrounded by golden fleurons.
The bass had been caught a scant 24 hours before in the salty waters of Montauk.
 Her Majesty pronounced the fish a culinary masterpiece.

Legendary Philadelphia chef/caterer Steve Poses serves striped bass, as an entre on his buffet. A patron is quoted saying "The food is delicious. The fish, especially, is excellent." The Inquirer calls Poses new undertaking - Bravo @ the Mann - "Among the city's newest and most enjoyable dining experiences."

Tasting the wild and farmed striped bass side by side reveals their greatest difference. The farmed one has more fragile flesh but, many chefs agree, is inferior in flavor. “It’s muddy and bland,” said Eric Ripert, the chef at Le Bernardin, on West 51st Street. He will not serve it in his restaurant. Nor will Boulud at Daniel or Moonen at Oceana. “It tastes more of the protein it eats all day than it does of itself,” Mr. Boulud said....The wild striped bass, on the other hand, is a muscular fish. “It’s very special, because it’s not a fish that sits around so much,...

From "A Catch to Make a Chef’s Heart Leap" by A. Hester in The New York Times on 1/28/98.


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