/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>19949618
Seafood is overrated.

>>19949618
Nobody cares about african food

Mediterranean seafood in general is pretty unimaginative. The one big idea they all have is to throw a bunch of sea-meat into a pot and make a stew.

>>19949618

Subsequently France is more inland and would be prime real estate for grain fields yet Italy makes all the carbs (pizza, pasta, etc)

But French seafood tho...

>>19949633
The entire eastern seaboard got fucked after 1986, you never buy a vintage post Chernobyl

>>19949618
>>yet no one gives a shit about its sea food
overfished, that's why. Everyone eats sardines.
I watched a S. Korean buyer guy stand at the dock/packing plant in Yarmouth ME and buy 100% of the "catch of the day" from the fleets being packed for travel. All of it! Price is no object, just wanted it all. Maine lobster is good and all, but the asian side of the world has had no regulation and they overfished their own waters like a rat race for food, that's why.
In Grand Cayman, all the seafood is imported from Honduras, because they don't want to wreck their own pristine protected waters.

>>19949642
>but the asian side of the world has had no regulation and they overfished their own waters
Death to tempura fags

>>19949618
Except they do you stronzo di merda.

>>19949669
wtf I hate Italian food now

>>19949618
Anon how is someone from NYC supposed to replicate a seafood dish from Italy? The italians eat plenty of seafood but no one outside of the mediterranean is gonna be able to make it simply due to not having the ingredients. Did you suffer from an aneurism before making this thread?

>>19949704
I don't live that far away from the mediterranean sea and no one gives a shit about Italian sea food here.

>>19949618
>no one gives a shit about its sea food
That is laughably incorrect

>>19949618
>be Portugal
>renowned for its seafaring history and ports
>national cuisine is indeed mainly seafood
>it's..... canned sardines and boiled dried salted cod

>>19949618
I was there for 8 days a couple years back and half the meals I ate included seafood. Frutti di mare pizza was the best one.

Nobody cares about their seafood outside italy because frozen or tinned fish sucks in comparison to fresh.

>>19949640
I buy french post-86 wines by the case. Take your autism somewhere else wine snob.

>>19949618
>OP is back
>he figured out the difference between an island and a peninsular
Well done, Champ.

>>19949618
What the fuck are you talking about, italian seafood is fucking everywhere

>>19950040
> What the fuck are you talking about, italian seafood is fucking everywhere

Yup. I’m in the US around Italians, and there’s lots of yummy seafood. Maybe op doesn’t live around Italians.

>>19949618
It's not clear to me what you are trying to say
Italians eat a fuckton of seafood (in the parts of Italy near the sea of course)but recipes are most of the time just cooking it in some way or eating it raw

So it doesn't makes much sense replicate the seafood recipes outside because it's just a matter of having access to a sea. Indeed a lot of Italian seafood recipes are identical to every other country that have a seafood culture
The only pecular recipes are the one involving other typical food like pizza and pasta (eg: pasta with mussels, pizza ai frutti di mare)

>>19949618
the amount of seafood that's eaten in italy is like the #1 observation people make when they go there for the first time

>>19949633
Po valley is one of the most fertile regions in the world, Sicily was the breadbasket of the Roman Republic before Egypt.