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Cornish Fishing and Seafood
| Author: Carol Trewin & Adam Woolfitt |
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| ISBN: 0906720427 |
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Did you know that more than 50 species of fish and shellfish are regularly landed in Cornwall? Or that stocks of most of these are thriving?
Cornish Fishing and Seafood is not just another book of fish recipes, although more than 20 recipes demonstrate how easy it is to cook the best, freshest fish. It also celebrates seafood and sea fishing in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, and reveals why our only truly wild source of food, harvested by the last of the hunter-gatherers, is special, to be treated with respect. It takes the lid off the myths and misunderstandings surrounding sea fishing, to discover the real state of fishing in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
Using the words and experiences of the fishermen themselves, auctioneers, processors and fish merchants, this book debunks any idea that fishermen are wilfully destroying the very thing that provides them with a living, showing instead the initiatives they have taken to protect stocks for the future.
While celebrating the positive aspects of Cornish fishing, Cornish Fishing and Seafood does not shy away from recent difficulties – decommissioning, cuts in fish quotas, and shortages of manpower. It also looks forwards, and outlines the steps being taken to ensure that Cornish fishermen and Cornish boats keep fishing profitably in the twenty-first century.
Cornish Fishing and Seafood has been written with support from the industry, at sea and onshore, so that profits from sales can help the Duchy Fish Quota Company to keep Cornish fishing quota in Cornwall.
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Until her death in 2009, Carol Trewin was Food Editor of the Western Morning News. Before that she had been editor of Radio 4’s Farming Today and had worked for BBC Radio 4’s Food Programme, Woman’s Hour and the BBC World Service. Other farming, food and environmental programmes that she produced included On Your Farm, Costing the Earth, Walston Goes Walkabout, and Over the Counter. She was Farming Editor of the Western Morning News, and later joined the regional food group Taste of the West, to set up and run a £3 million food and drink project in Cornwall. She wrote on farming, food and the countryside for many publications, including Food Illustrated, The Field, British Farmer and Grower, Inside Cornwall, food and Devon Today. In 1999 she was elected an Associate of the Royal Agricultural Societies. Carol also wrote Gourmet Cornwall (Alison Hodge, 2005).
See a tribute to Carol on the Western Morning News website, and an obituary in the BBC News Magazine.
Adam Woolfitt has been a photographer most of his life, and contributed to the National Geographic and other leading magazines for 30 years. He writes on digital photography for the British Journal of Photography, Image Magazine, and Photo District News in New York. He was Chairman of, and on the Council of, the Association of Photographers, and is an Honorary Fellow of the British Institute of Professional Photographers. Adam illustrated Gourmet Cornwall (Alison Hodge, 2005).
1st edition
Paperback with flaps
256 pages
235 photographs, 1 map
246 x 189mm
28.09.06
Foreword by Colin Warwick, MBE
Introduction
1 Cornwall on the Move
Verbatims: Andrew Pascoe, Handline Fishermen’s Association, Rick Stein, Seafood Restaurant
2 ‘Little fishes they call pylchards’
Verbatim: Nick Howell, The Pilchard Works
3 On Secret Service: Something Fishy
Verbatim: John Moor, boat builder
4 From Bonanza to Brussels
Verbatims: Paul Trebilcock, Cornish Fish Producers’ Organisation, Steve Farrar, fish merchant
5 It’s not Conservation, it’s Political Madness
Verbatims: Eddy Derriman, Chief Sea Fisheries Officer for Cornwall, David Whitehead, Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen
6 The Real Dilemma: Safeguarding the Future
Verbatims: Elizabeth Stevenson, W. Stevenson & Sons, Rob Forster, Jon Ashworth and Oliver Wade, Fisheries Science Partnership
7 Fish Markets: The Twenty-first Century
Verbatims: Robert George, Seafood Cornwall, Mark Greet, Fal Fish
8 More Than Just Fish and Chips
Verbatims: Jackie Provost and Angela Harrison, Pengelly’s fishmongers, Chris Bean, fisherman
9 Net Gains
Verbatims: Colin Warwick, Duchy Fish Quota Company, Robin Turner, fish merchant
10 Enjoying the Harvest of the Seas
Verbatim: Ian Murray, chef
11 Chefs and Recipes
Toby Ashworth, Nick Barclay, Gerry Boriosi, Billy Bunn, Paul Drye, Gareth Eddy, Chris Eden, Gill Faiers, Neil Haydock, Stuart Hayler, Steven Hill, Peter Hingston, Greg Laskey, Ben Lightfoot, Ian Murray, Rick Stein, Richard Stevenson, Nigel Tabb, Nik Tinney, Ben Tunnicliffe
Newlyn Fish Market, by James Crowden
Bibliography
Suppliers and Outlets
Chefs
Sponsors
Acknowledgements
Cornish Fishing and Seafood won the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2006 for the Best Local Cookbook published in English in the UK. Previous winners in English include Rick Stein and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. The Gourmand World Cookbook Awards are regarded as the Oscars of food and drink books, and attract some 6,000 entries from 65 countries. Winners are selected for the author ‘whose personality and heart shines throughout the book’; for their high quality of production and printing, and as a user-friendly book that ‘respects and understands’ the reader.
‘Cornish Fishing and Seafood is the key to eating more locally sourced fish. It tells the true story of the Cornish fishing industry, and why we must love and cherish it.’ (Gordon Ramsay)
‘Here's something to celebrate: a book about the fishing industry that's not full of tales of threatened stocks and livelihoods ... an uplifting study of a vibrant sector with a bright future.’ (Coast, issue 14, September/October 2006)
‘Through 256 full-colour pages of carefully researched documentary and glorious shots, they create a comprehensive and panoramic record of the Cornish fishing industry today ...
‘... the reader is the beneficiary of Ms Trewin's determination to record a faithful account of this most primal pursuit.’ (Western Morning News, 12.09.06)
‘Carol Trewin has broadcast and written on farming, food and the countryside in a wide range of programmes and publications, but this must surely be the most comprehensive and pertinent publication she has yet produced.
‘She is to be congratulated on her extraordinary hunting and gathering efforts and for telling it like it is.’ (The Cornishman, 28.09.06)
‘... Carol Trewin is someone who tackles the subject of food with a passion ...
‘... she understands her subject inside out ...
‘... Her words go hand in hand with the glorious photography of Adam Woolfitt ...’ (Western Morning News, 30.09.06)
‘A comprehensive and balanced overview of the fishing industry in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly ...
‘The imaginative use of top quality action and atmospheric photographs taken at the cutting edge by Adam Woolfitt, further enhances the quality of what is both an extremely well presented and highly accurate book. ...
‘Immensely readable ...’ (Fishing News, 03.11.06)
‘Carol Trewin is Cornwall’s leading food writer. ... She is an evangelist, standing in the front-line of defending farming and fishing from the predations of bureaucrats and supermarkets. ...
‘... Cornish Fishing and Seafood is a tour-de-force. The history, technique and feelings of the Cornish fishing industry are laid bare.’ (Cornish World, 2006)
‘Packed with dramatic testimony from Cornish fishing folk and merchants ... the book covers the history, the trials and tribulations and the future of the industry ... Thoroughly absorbing.’ (The Eden Project, Friends Magazine, no. 24, Winter 2006)
‘deserves to be widely read. It makes an outstanding contribution to our understanding of an industry that is both warp and weft to Cornwall. Carol Trewin writes with authority, sensitivity and imagination about every aspect of Cornish Fishing and seafood’ (Coast Project, Newsletter, Autumn 2006)
‘a perfect Christmas gift’ (Cornwall Today December 2006)
‘a voyage of discovery that also includes history and politics’ (Western Morning News 16.12.06)
‘... whether you are a cook, a fish connoisseur, a fisherman or someone interested in the sea and its sustainability, you will find something to interest you.’ (Cornish Worldwide Winter 2006)
‘... a lively and fascinating overview ...
‘The informative text is accompanied by a series of incisive interviews ...
‘Illustrated with a series of brilliant photographs this is an enlightening celebration, which brings long overdue respect and recognition to an industry at the heart of Cornish life.’ (This England, Summer 2007)
‘This is a gorgeous, full-colour volume (photographer Adam Woolfitt does fantastic work) ... but it’s a book you should read. It’s a serious, worrying and inspiring book...
‘... a book about fishing, yes, but it’s about community, heritage and the future. ...
‘This is the book to give you a real insight into the industry. Buy it and read it.’ (Mostly Food Journal, May 2008)
Cornish Fishing and Seafood was featured at the Cornwall Food and Drink Festival in September 2006. |
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