{"product_id":"2940013914360","title":"HOW TO COOK FISH LIKE A CHEF","description":"\"First catch your hare,\" the old cookery books used to say, and\u003cbr\u003ehence it is proper, in a treatise devoted entirely to the cooking\u003cbr\u003eof Unshelled Fish, to pay passing attention to the Catching, or\u003cbr\u003ewhat the Head of the House terms the Masculine Division of the\u003cbr\u003eSubject. As it is evident that the catching must, in every case\u003cbr\u003eprecede the cooking--but not too far--the preface is the place\u003cbr\u003eto begin.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShell-fish are, comparatively, slow of movement, without guile,\u003cbr\u003epitifully trusting, and very easily caught. Observe the difference\u003cbr\u003ebetween the chunk of mutton and four feet of string with which one\u003cbr\u003egoes crabbing, and the complicated hooks, rods, flies, and reels\u003cbr\u003edevoted to the capture of unshelled fish.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn unshelled fish is lively and elusive past the power of words to\u003cbr\u003eportray, and in this, undoubtedly, lies its desirability. People\u003cbr\u003ewill travel for two nights and a day to some spot\u003cbr\u003e[Page 2]\u003cbr\u003ewhere all unshelled fish has once been seen, taking $59.99 worth\u003cbr\u003eof fishing tackle, \"marked down from $60.00 for to-day only,\" rent\u003cbr\u003ea canoe, hire a guide at more than human life is worth in courts\u003cbr\u003eof law, and work with dogged patience from gray dawn till sunset.\u003cbr\u003eAnd for what? For one small bass which could have been bought at\u003cbr\u003eany trustworthy market for sixty-five cents, or, possibly, some\u003cbr\u003epoor little kitten-fish-offspring of a catfish--whose mother's\u003cbr\u003emilk is not yet dry upon its lips.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOther fish who have just been weaned and are beginning to notice\u003cbr\u003esolid food will repeatedly take a hook too large to swallow, and\u003cbr\u003ebe dragged into the boat, literally, by the skin of the teeth.\u003cbr\u003eNote the cheerful little sunfish, four inches long, which is caught\u003cbr\u003efirst on one side of the boat and then on the other, by the patient\u003cbr\u003efisherman angling off a rocky, weedy point for bass.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut, as Grover Cleveland said: \"He is no true fisherman who is\u003cbr\u003ewilling to fish only when fish are biting.\" The real angler will\u003cbr\u003esit all day in a boat in a pouring rain, eagerly watching the point\u003cbr\u003eof the rod, which never for an instant swerves a half inch from\u003cbr\u003ethe horizontal. The real angler will troll for miles with a hand\u003cbr\u003eline and a spinner, winding in the thirty-five dripping feet of","brand":"eBook","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47147596218608,"sku":"2940013914360","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013914360_p0.jpg?v=1763597045","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013914360","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}