
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, October 5, 1994                   TAG: 9411300011
SECTION: EXTRA                    PAGE: 3   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: ALMENA HUGHES STAFF WRITER
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

SENSATIONAL SEAFOOD

Health and nutrition expert Jane Brody says that we are a nation of "pescaphoes," fearful of the more than 2,000 varieties of finfish and shellfish commercially available in this country because of our unfamilarity with them. Yet, there is much to recommend fish: It's generally high in protein and low in fat. It's fast and easy to prepare and extremely versatile. It's available in some form year round in price ranges suitable for almost any budget.

To help overcome fish phobia, Brody, in collabrotaion with Richard Flaste, wrote her new "Jane Brody's Good Seafood Book' ($27.50, W. W. Norton & Co., New York), with an entire section dedicated to demystifying seafood and detailing its nutritional advantages. The hefty, hardbound volumne contains more than 200 recipes, incorportating lots of herbs and seasonings, up-to-date strategies for light menus and international ingredients and techniques. The only improvement would have been inclusion of photos, preferably color, of some of the dishes instead of limited and rather listless black and white illustrations of fishes and cooking utensils.

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