Well THANK you Norway!!!
I simply LOVE sushi salmon, raw salmon.
If it wasn't for you who knows if I would've got this pleasure :)
How Norway Created Salmon Sushi
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Re: How Norway Created Salmon Sushi
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
One more reason to eat salmon sushi, salmon is farmed and will not go extinct.
Farmed salmon is much inferior to wild salmon though.
Amen. I'm originally from the west of Ireland and we used to sometimes get fresh wild salmon from a local river off a fisherman friend of the family. The taste difference was just amazing. The farmed stuff is liking eating plastic in comparison. The other thing that makes a huge difference in my experience is to have fish that's never been frozen (someone once told me the reason has to do with the crystallization process killing the taste, although I've no idea how that works).
Re: How Norway Created Salmon Sushi
#33Screw the sushi. Kimbab is the new hot thing.
Re: How Norway Created Salmon Sushi
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
At the sea.
I was curious about whether these were local Scottish salmon on imported salmon - traditionally there was a fair amount of salmon caught at sea near to the mouths of rivers in Scotland but that has mostly stopped - partially, as far as I know, from pressure from the landowners who own fishing rights to rivers & lochs. Fishing in Scotland can be extremely expensive. NB I am in Scotland and eat a fair bit of salmon and…
> I was curious about whether these were local Scottish salmon on imported salmon
Not easy to know, but many could be imported from Denmark probably, scottish and faroese salmons are in the same population.
> Fishing in Scotland can be extremely expensive
The NASCO headquarters are in Edinburgh in fact. Is a measure to try to recover the species. To fish the genetically better specimens just a week before to spawn is a silly move (you are killing millions of fingerlings).
Americans are also worried about the US fisheries and concerned about the need to preserve the resource. All atlantic salmon in the US market is farm-raised.
http://www.fishwatch.gov/seafood_profiles/species/salmon/spe...
Re: How Norway Created Salmon Sushi
#35Another way of see this is that both, Japan and Norway have a big aquaculture industry and they compete. To assure the control of the salmon's market is an essential goal for Norway as nation; they produce 1 million of tons each year for the european market. When somebody tries to farm new salmon (in France or Spain or whatever) they typically flood the market with below cost salmon or trouts until the competence is…
When somebody tries to farm new salmon (in France or Spain
or whatever) they typically flood the market with below cost
salmon or trouts until the competence is distroyed by lack of
rentability.
Re: How Norway Created Salmon Sushi
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
Farmed salmon is much inferior to wild salmon though.
Amen. I'm originally from the west of Ireland and we used to sometimes get fresh wild salmon from a local river off a fisherman friend of the family. The taste difference was just amazing. The farmed stuff is liking eating plastic in comparison. The other thing that makes a huge difference in my experience is to have fish that's never been frozen (someone once told me the reason has to do with the crystallization pro…
Crystallization bursts cell membranes, causing more rapid decay from the moment it is thawed. It is that (micro-)decay that causes the change in flavor.
Re: How Norway Created Salmon Sushi
#37Another way of see this is that both, Japan and Norway have a big aquaculture industry and they compete. To assure the control of the salmon's market is an essential goal for Norway as nation; they produce 1 million of tons each year for the european market. When somebody tries to farm new salmon (in France or Spain or whatever) they typically flood the market with below cost salmon or trouts until the competence is…
Canada is alright with PNW salmon farming, but the US is not. The biggest concern is protecting the native salmon runs, especially against the risks of disease, drugs, and general filth building up in the farms and contaminating things.
Re: How Norway Created Salmon Sushi
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Farmed salmon is much inferior to wild salmon though.
Amen. I'm originally from the west of Ireland and we used to sometimes get fresh wild salmon from a local river off a fisherman friend of the family. The taste difference was just amazing. The farmed stuff is liking eating plastic in comparison. The other thing that makes a huge difference in my experience is to have fish that's never been frozen (someone once told me the reason has to do with the crystallization pro…
> (someone once told me the reason has to do with the crystallization process killing the taste, although I've no idea how that works)
The crystallization process in this case means that the solid crystal formed by water freezing into ice ruptures all of the cell walls, releasing their contents. Once that happens the chemistry of the food can change drastically as enzymes and proteins that were once only active inside cells are now floating everywhere.
In the case of frozen salmon, the taste appears to come from some sort of enzymatic process involving fatty acids [1].
Re: How Norway Created Salmon Sushi
#39Norwegian farmed salmon are among the biggest sources of food-borne contaminants in a normal diet. It contains four times as much dioxin as the highest permissible limit for meat, eggs and milk.
Re: How Norway Created Salmon Sushi
#40Fascinating. I love sushi but never knew that so much of it was actually of Norway's influence. Unlike the famed influence of sushi chefs in west Canada and California in the mid-20th century, which carried over into the names of popular sushi rolls (the "California" roll), it would seem this Norway invention was even more important, but where are my Norway rolls?
Keep in mind that California is very good at PR. Or bragging. Depends on how you look at it. Other places are similar, of course. Paris, and France in general, comes to mind, but so does Berlin. London can't decide if it's awesome or rubbish, but it knows it's important. California is convinced it's the center of the universe.
The the logic I can draw from your statement is that Norway is a very humble place :)