In at the Deep End: Cooking Fish Venice to Tokyo

by Jake Tilson

Join award-winning artist, designer, writer and chef Jake Tilson as he travels the world on a quest to buy, prepare, and cook fish and seafood. In At The Deep End is an engaging personal story of discovery, one that Jake tells passionately as a new enthusiast and also visually as a photographer and designer. From Venice to London, New York to Sweden, and Aberdeen to Sydney, Jake chronicles his journey in exhilarating detail. Whether cooking and eating Venetian bigoli with clams or New York crab cakes, Swedish soused herrings or Japanese sushi and sashimi, he effortlessly conjures up the worlds these dishes were born in. An evocative, marvelously layered exploration of Jake’s many experiences with fish, this unusual memoir/cookbook chronicles his progression from fish-phobic cook to seafood obsessive. It is to be read, savored, used and, above all, enjoyed.

222 pages, Paperback

First published October 18, 2011

Reviews

[Kristen · Rating 2 out of 5]

Oof, I think the author was more interested in writing a book about traveling and what fish means to different cultures. If this was a book about that with a couple recipes it may have been better. But seeing as this was sold as a cookbook: the graphic design was horrible—every page was different and just a mess of fonts and pictures and layers to try to read. Further, only a couple recipes worked. These felt like they weren’t tested and definitely weren’t tested by people who hadn’t made the dishes before as some of the instructions and quantities were missing, bizarre, or just off. We won’t be keeping this even though we did get 2 recipes that worked from it.