Fish For You [TRADE PAPER ]

This cookbook is about fish, seafood, and a diverse way of cooking styles to prepare them. Some of my best memories are of being on the water fishing. So much of who I am is because of my time with mother ocean, from searching out oyster beds on the Sunshine Coast to the cold weather spot prawn season and fishing salmon, cod, and even octopus in every imaginable weather pattern. My love and respect for fish and seafood has a long history and these memories have shaped who I am as a cook.

There have been so many teachers in my life when it comes to seafood and cuisine. I have learned from the best fishmongers, culinary seafood icons, and to say this book is diverse would be an understatement. Learning how to open oysters with my dad or my mother teaching me how to clean fresh crab that I had just caught, it has all been one great journey for me. This is what this cookbook is all about, a different look at fish and seafood, something new to learn and a ton of inspiration for your next seafood adventure.

The culinary force behind this cookbook is all these experiences. I can honestly say I am not a chef with a deep rooted singular culinary style or vision, I am truly a culinary globetrotter and I say that with pride. When a dish has Japanese roots its because I have spent years examining their ingredients, working along side Japanese cooks, learning, making mistakes and after 12-hour shifts going home to practice what I had learned until it was an extension of my soul.

I love the spices and warmth of Indian cooking and this has come with great mentorship from Chef Rajeev Aurora who I worked with in my hotel days, I would come in on my day off and he would teach me how to make simple curries and some not so simple curries, this was also another great obsession of mine and still is.

My culinary training is French based and there is a lot of that training in this book, from Chef Pascal teaching me how to make an authentic bouillabaisse, to Chef Robert Clark tealãT