The closets supermarket to my
home is Whole Foods, all the food is fantastic and you don’t have to worry if
the chicken has hormones detrimental to your health or not because the answer
is not. I have never paid attention to this matter because in Europe the use of
the certain hormones to make young animals gain grow faster is regulated by law
and in theory you are safe that this hormones help to developed a cancer in
your body.
After this introduction praising
Whole Foods, even the fishmonger is good, something is missing there. I think maybe
it’s because I’m use to have a huge variety of fish in Spain and the option to
buy a whole fish, with the head and bones. It’s nothing wrong with the filets
but when you put a sea bass in the oven the flavor is going to be richer if you
cook it with the head, if somebody is thinking that is disgusting, don’t do it,
because you don’t eat the head.
After have this conversation with
a Spanish friend, she did a web research and she found two fishmongers as we
know in Spain. New Deal Fish Market is one of them, in 622 Cambridge St, Cambridge,
and the other one is Courthouse Seafood at 498 Cambridge Street, East Cambridge.
I’ve visited the first one and my
experience couldn’t be better the variety of fish is incredible and the quality
as well. I bought sea bass and swordfish, both of them full of flavor; it has
been the first time that I ate a really good fish since I’m here, I mean a flavor
fish not hidden under a rich sauce. I have to go to Courthouse Seafood because is a restaurant too and maybe because the Portuguese roots I'm going to eat European style fish.
If you want to know the recipe of
the sea bass let me know and I’ll write it down.
