Note for Readers in Britain and North America

You will find that I have included in the introductory passages to the families in the catalogues a good deal of information about which Mediterranean fish or their equivalents occur in British and North American waters, and that there are some hints in the recipe section on possible substitutions. Here I sketch the general picture, so that you can see at a glance that a great deal of Mediterranean seafood is available in Britain by one means or another and that North American readers too have wider scope for using this book than might be thought. This applies particularly to Americans in the Gulf States and the Caribbean region.