[Sca-cooks] Re: Whole Fish was Christianity

[johnna holloway]

  oh, and the reproving looks
>>they have gotten from a baked fish with its head still on.

The problem that I encountered with whole fish as a diner is that
very few people know what to do when presented with a large whole
bone in fish that is supposed to serve the entire table.

The fish arrives and sits there on the platter because few people
know how to debone and then serve pieces from a whole fish. Also
few diners have the proper sort of knife at hand to handle a whole
fish.

I went up and down a row of tables one evening at a feast, deboning
several platters worth, so that people could or would eat the fish
course.

My feeling was that it would have gone back to the kitchen untouched had 
someone not done it.

Johnnae llyn Lewis