Find out how to get the most from your catch with Smoking Salmon and Trout. With over 400 photos and illustrations, this authoritative how-to book provides step-by-step instructions for home processing the fish you catch or buy. Extensive chapters on filleting, smoking, salting, sausaging, marinating and pickling fish show you how to create all the traditional mouth-watering treats you find in supermarkets and delicatessens.

There are easy-to-follow directions for safe home freezing and canning, as well as unusual recipes from around the world - including Jamaica Fritters, Martinique Fishballs and Russian Zapekanka - that have been tested by the author.

Jack Whelan was a long-time devotee of good fishing and good eating who spent many years in nutrition research. He branded a number of patents internationally in fields of food science and engineering. Smoking Salmon and Trout is the result of his years of research into the commercial preserving and processing of fish, and years of adapting these proven practices to easy home use.

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"Whelan...pursued many interests, none with more passion than catching and preparing fish."
-The Mail-Star

The Mail-Star

"Whelan may have died twenty years ago, but his book seems immortal..."
-Cherie Thiessen, Mariner Life

Mariner Life

"...a fasinating little book that, with 400 photos, and highly detailed text, demystifies the preserving techniques behind everything from lox to caviar."
-Angela Murrils, Georgia Straight

Georgia Straight