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  <title><![CDATA[Consider the Eel: A Natural and Gastronomic History]]></title>
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  <default-description>Outside of sushi houses and the rare four-star restaurant, most Americans would never think to eat eel, but throughout Europe and Asia you can find it grilled, smoked, stewed, jellied, skewered, fried, baked, saut&#233;ed, and even cooked into an omelet. In Consider the Eel, acclaimed writer Richard Schweid takes the reader on a journey to show how this rich yet mild-tasting fish is a vibrant part of the world culture. Discover how eels, from their birth in the Sargasso Sea to their eventual end as a piece of kabayaki or as part of an Italian Christmas dinner, are one of our oldest and least understood gifts from the sea.</default-description>
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  <original-publication-year type="integer">2002</original-publication-year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Richard Schweid]]></name>
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  <date_added>Wed Aug 22 08:45:17 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I know, I know. Eels are icky. They're twisty and slimy and thoroughly unappealing. And yet, I couldn't put this book down. Schweid does for eels what Ellis did for Giant Squid or Kurlansky did for cod: take a maligned or little-known creature and show us the wonder to be found.<br/><br/>Did you k...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4936900">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Schweid appropriates MK Fisher's famous format for an eel treatment.  The eel is, indeed, fascinating and unique but this book did not hold my interest like MKF's -- her prose is more sparkling and humorous.  Schweid does his research but writes like a graduate student, alas.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow, eels are utterly fascinating. The cultural elements about eel cuisine and the subculture of eel fishermen are curious and entertaining, but whose mind would not be blown when confronted with the facts of eel migration? Or eels' sense of smell, for that matter? I know not.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Eels are fucking crazy.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[great book. made me hungry for sauteed eels. Freud discovered eel testes, way before he was studying humans. Where else can you learn such wonderful stuff as &quot;The eels like nothing better than to come up under a ripe herring in the river and press their heads on the herring’s anal vent, which...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8183344">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is all about eels and it is ridiculously fascinating.   ]]></body>
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