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If you’ve ever had the pleasure of lifting the tender, moist cheek from a salt-baked sea bass, enjoyed a fried cod’s tongue in Newfoundland or Norway, stripped a salty soy-drenched grilled hamachi collar or saved a meaty halibut cheek from its usual, sad fate of being turned into mock scallops, you will understand something of the culinary pleasures concealed about the heads of fish. “I pay for the heads-why not serve them?” “Why throw anything out when it’s good?” chef Bird asked rhetorically. Why our chefs copied theirs is a simpler matter still. Grilled fish collars are a Japanese staple, so it’s only natural that in difficult economic times, their curiosity and appetite should extend to the other side of the gills. Their chefs understand better than those of any other culture where to find the tastiest parts of a fish. Its jump from the soup bowl to the dinner plate seems, unsurprisingly, to have occurred in Japanese kitchens. In the stockpot mainly, if you look to Europe in the curry pot in South Asia and in similar, vibrantly spiced stews in East Asia. How and where the trend got started is less clear, but it has obviously been simmering for some time.
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And instead of the customary half-head, each portion packs a full pair of them.įish heads are in. And if you prefer your fish heads crunchy, you can get your fix in Vancouver-Trevor Bird’s Fable Kitchen in Kitsilano regularly serves up lightly battered head of Lois Lake-farmed steelhead with meaty collar attached, seasoned with ginger and soy and served in a butter-lettuce wrap with pickled carrots and cilantro. It was a sloppy but flavoursome dish.Įx-Montreal chef Mehdi Brunet-Benkritly is turning out maple-and-soy salmon heads for New Yorkers at his popular new New York izakaya, Chez Sardine.
Kazuo Atkutsu’s guillotined Atlantic salmon was marinated in soy, grilled and dressed up with a festive splatter of taste and texture representing a good part of the repertoire of the Japanese pantry, and few add-ons besides. And it was around a year previous that I tucked into a full salmon head at a quirky downtown Montreal izakaya named Kazu. That bluefish head was on the John Dory menu in the spring. Chef April Bloomfield did not get her Michelin stars for nothing.īut neither is she responsible for this relatively new culinary trend of whole-fish, fang-to-fin dining.
The package was enriched by crisp-fried discs of sunchoke and brightened with a scattering of the pods and sprouts of sugar snap peas, and a good lashing of peppery olive oil.
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Its skin was crisp and the flesh beneath was moist and oily. Boston bluefish run large, so the head had been split lengthwise, very generously salted and then roasted. To be sure, it was a fine fish head-about as irresistible as they come. “Eat them up, yum!” And then-most uncharacteristically-she did. “ Fish heads, fish heads, roly-poly fish heads,” she sang softly, serenading the morsel of Boston bluefish on the end of her fork. Or has her singing one-for in this instance the diner seated at the counter of the John Dory Oyster Bar in Lower Manhattan was my wife. In the 2017 television episode "Goodwill" of Halt and Catch Fire Joe and Haley listen to the song while driving in Joe's car.The latest chapter in the adventurous western gourmand’s ongoing quest to catch up with the Third World has him singing a rather strange song.
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Alan Arkin sings the song in the 1993 movie Indian Summer. The song is featured in The Simpsons episode " Treehouse of Horror VII". The video aired on NBC television on Saturday Night Live, on Decemand the following week. The verses describe various things they (mostly) cannot do such as play baseball, wear sweaters, and play the drums.Īctor Bill Paxton, a filmmaker at the time, directed and appeared in the music video for the song, along with cinematographer Rocky Schenck and Robert Haimer's girlfriend at the time, Joan Farber, who designed the costume look.
The lyrics are an absurdist celebration of fish heads, describing them in the high-pitched chorus as "roly poly" and delicious to eat. Quick facts: "Fish Heads", Single by Barnes & Barnes.
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