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Article: Eating In: Where the wild fins are Smoked salmon made from farmed fish is no substitute for wild fish smoked in the traditional way. It's more expensive but it's worth every penny. Try some, urges Michael Bateman
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- December 5, 1999
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CopyrightCopyright 1999 The Independent - London. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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DO YOU have a feeling that smoked salmon isn't the delicacy you
once thought it was? You're right, of course.
There was a time when British smoked salmon and Whitstable oysters
were ranked as luxury items alongside the caviar of Russia, the foie
gras of Perigord and the white truffles of Piemonte. But just as our
oysters have been outnumbered by the more commercial, faster-growing
and cheaper rock variety, so fine smoked salmon has been eclipsed
over the last 15 years by the growth of farmed salmon.
While farmed fish can make decent smoked salmon, the best by far
is made with wild fish. And for obvious reasons, it is going to cost
more. Double, to be precise.
Sceptical that it's worth the ...