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Seafood

Excellent food and protein sources and considered gourmet foods and delicacies in most parts of the world.

Seafood is any sea animal that is served as food or is suitable for eating. This usually includes sea water animals, such as fish and shellfish (including mollusks, and crustaceans). By extension, the term seafood is also applied to similar animals from fresh water. These aquatic animals are also collectively referred to as seafood.

Edible seaweeds are rarely considered seafood, even though they come from sea water and are widely eaten around the world. The harvesting of seafood is known as fishing and the cultivation of seafood is known as aquaculture, mariculture, or simply fish farming.

From the earliest age of human civilization, seafood has been an important food source: it can easily be hunted and gathered, even by those lacking power or speed. Basket-like traps have long been widely used to hunt fish in rivers and lakes. Sometimes, fish was speared just as one would hunt a small animal. Ancient Egyptian civilization used the symbol of fish for counting large numbers; they ate fish both dried and fresh. Jews abstain from all shellfish due to kashrut. It is looked over often, but the rise of ancient Greek and Roman civilization was in no small part due to the abundant fish of the Mediterranean Sea. Shellfish was a staple food in many locations and in the Jomon period of Japan; the amount of shellfish consumed and thrown away from that time is used to measure how many people lived in certain area.

Dishes:
Bouillabaisse
Cioppino
Clam chowder
Fried squid
Steamed fish
Sushi
Fried Fish
Calamari
Sashimi

• Breaded Fried Oysters

• How to Cook Oysters

• Stewed Oysters

• Ceviche of Shrimp and Sea Bass


See:
• Cooking
• Olive Oil
• Sydney Smith's salad dressing
• Anchovy
• Bisque
• Iron Chef
• Foie Gras
• Asparagus
• Shrimp

• Chili Pepper
• Habanero
• Sushi

• Oysters
• Mollusk
• Seafood

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• Recipe: Grilled Tuna Steak 1
• Grilling Tuna Steak for a Simple Gourmet Meal

• Julia Child Gourmet Cook
• Le Cordon Bleu Cooking School

• Cuisine
• List of American Foods
• Cuisine of the United States

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