If you want to add extra seafood such as shrimp and clams, another favorite seafood soup of mine is Cioppino. Cold Fish Soup, by Adam Farrer, is a love letter to Withernsea, a small town on the north-east coast that’s seen better days and is quite literally falling into the sea. It was invented in the first quarter of the 20th century by Louis Diat, a French-born cook working as head chef of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in New York. Also, I've added a few (5) small cuts of russian Salo (google this, it's a russian staple food) to sear with the Onions.

Cold Fish Soup — Adam Farrer Cold Fish Soup — Adam Farrer

The writing is absolutely beautiful, eloquent but grounded, whisking you between coastal scenery and family sitting rooms; between the comic and the tragic. But as your gut is probably telling you, fresh fish definitely tastes much better than the frozen one. I have been making this with different fish and seafood it’s delicious and healthy , some times I add in chunks of potatoes . This sets up the sardonic tone of the book, which, along with a finely balanced tenderness for the place and people makes up the default emotional register of the book, allowing for an exploration of life events — separation, suicide, early death of a sibling, a dying father and a hopeless dog — to be done in Farrer’s own terms, negotiating his relationship to language along the way. Some people eat it as two courses, serving the broth with croutons and rouille first, then the fish spooned into the same bowl.This is a moving memoir filled with highs and lows, all told with endearing, frank and honest passion. Soups are still the most popular appetiser /slash/ starterat Polish homes, especially when it gets cold outside.

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Told across ten interconnected personal essays and charting a course from my adolescence right up to COVID times, these are stories of life, death, interdimensional werewolves, burlesque dancing pensioners and problematic compulsions.

Cold Fish Soup is a series of meditations, often humorous, about life and death in a crumbling, forgotten English seaside town, and how people can find sanctuary and curious tales in the most unexpected places. Cold Fish Soup is a memoir in essays, reflecting upon different aspects of life in my former hometown, the Yorkshire coastal resort town of Withernsea. In a collection described by one reader as “a Yorkshire David Sedaris writing The Outrun”, the book asks, what does it mean to love and be shaped by a place that is dying?