Turbot à Vapeur

Brillat-Savarin’s steamed turbot

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Medium

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By Alan Davidson

Published 1980

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Few readers are likely to follow this recipe; but all will benefit from absorbing its lesson and from a taste of Brillat-Savarin’s prose.

A very large turbot is not easy to cook whole. The Roman emperor Domitian is said to have consulted the Senate about such a pro