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A Translucent and Rosy Whiteness

Hake with Potatoes and Pimentón

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By Rowley Leigh

Published 2018

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In England we are unsure about hake, some think it inferior to cod. Jane Grigson makes the unusual lapse of dismissing it as ‘Monday fish, hardly worth elevating to Friday’, a phrase that brings to mind the dull cod that we had for school supper on Fridays. Perhaps it is a matter of the freshness of the fish. When hake is fresh and has a glorious, almost translucent and rosy whiteness to the firm flesh, it is magnificent. If it is the sort of tired grey cadavers that might have been laid out on the fishmon- ger’s slab of yore, it would hardly be fit for any day of the week. It is a sad irony that now, due to refrigerated transport, fish is much fresher, but there is so much less of it about, and a lot fewer fishmongers.

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