Give Tilapia A Break; No Longer the Fish Chef's Love to Hate
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Washingtonpost] by Tamar Haspel October 26, 2016
When it comes to fish, no species brings out the haters like tilapia.
Read up on it, and you'll find tilapia described with words like "muddy" and "earthy"; there are entire forum threads devoted to its inferiority. This very newspaper, back in 2007, called it "the fish that chefs love to hate."
Should we really be so hard on this fast-growing freshwater fish?
In the world of food, there aren't too many propositions that get universal agreement, but here's one: Our oceans are overfished. If we're going to continue to eat fish, and to feed it to the people scheduled to join us on this planet in the coming years, we have to farm it. And if we're going to farm fish, an adaptable, hardy fish like tilapia...
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