It was some time after I bought "How to cook Everything" by the same author that I realized that I reconized the name Bittman. Sure enough I had gone through "Fish" about a year or so early in my mother's kitchen after coming over to cook some fresh ahi I had caught out of San Diego. I read through this book simply because it is a great read for anyone interested in serving fish. Bittman has a way with words, it isn't often that I sit and read a cookbook for pleasure, but his knowledge and understanding of fish, buying it, cooking it, serving it were interesting enough that I read about more stuff than I'll probably ever have time to try. For anyone interested in seafood as a specialty, get this book, as for cookbooks in general his "How to cook Everything" is number one.