Fish and taste... cooking a dish with the right fish... this is ittiogusto. How can you shop for fish products consciously and without the risk of frauds? How to get the best out of them starting from their processing to their presentation? Eurofishmarket asks experts and chefs for you.
E-mail your questions, doubts and curiosities about fish products to: gusto@eurofishmarket.it. Your enquiries will be taken into consideration for the development of future Ittiogusto surveys and columns.
FISH SHOPPING WITH NO TRICKS
Fished or farmed?
25/11/2009
By law a label displayed on fish counters must also indicate the fishing method and therefore if the product has been fished or farmed. It is more and more difficult if not impossible even for a trained eye to distinguish a fished product from a farmed one.
Colour and size in the majority of cases are not indicative characteristics anymore and often they can even be deceiving. In fact products farmed with modern aquaculture techniques have very similar characteristics to the wild ones and often farmed products arrive on the market fresher and in any requested size. Despite that the fish labelled as fished still has a much higher price compared to its farmed equivalent.
Would you like to learn how to easily distinguish between a fished product and a farmed one? Eurofishmarket can teach you some tricks….
FISH AND TASTE
Merluccius merluccius is the only Nasello or Merluzzo that can be fished in the Mediterranean
25/11/2009
It is very difficult to distinguish a fillet of NASELLO or MERLUZZO (Merluccius merluccius) of the Mediterranean from all the other species of NASELLO or MERLUZZO from other areas of the world. The only way to be certain is to buy it whole and with the head at the fresh products counter. This way you will also be able to better detect its freshness. This fish has refined, white, tender and lean but easily perishable meat. Since its meat is so delicate you must learn to fillet it.
Would you like to learn how?…. Eurofishmarket can show you
Do you know what you eat?
Comparative sheets on the large scale consumption fish products. Often the ordinary consumer, but also the long time fishery sector operators, do not distinguish the local species from aliens frequently found on the shops shelves.
Which of the 2 fillets comes from real Nile perch?
Which of the 2 fillets comes from real sole?
InforMare
Informare - Part I
12/09/2009
To train and inform the consumers on how to select the raw material they prefer according to their taste, their nutritional needs and their money and how to get the best out of it when cooking. Eurofishmarket has noticed a growing curiosity and most of all the consumers’ need for a better information on the subject. From this comes the idea of “InforMare” and its creation with DadaLab.
Courses and Events
SlowFisch 2009
18/09/2009
Bremen Exhibition Centre
Bremen 6 to 9 November 200)
