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My name is Paul Comeau and I’m owner of the restaurant Chez Christophe situated in Grosses Coques Nova Scotia Canada. Today I will be exploring the importance of salt in the Acadian cuisine, but to go back, the importance of salt can’t be overstated. In the very early days salt was an important ingredient to preserve conserve the fish which was being fished on the grounds, on the fishing grounds of Nova Scotia, Cape Breton and Newfoundland and so this was the only way in the time that we didn’t have refrigeration or other methods of freezing to conserve fish. The importance of salt continued after the return of the Acadians after their expulsion from Nova Scotia, salt continued to be an important ingredient to preserve fish. Today we’ll be looking at the salted pollock which is used at this particular restaurant because it’s always a debate as to what’s best. The cod or the pollock. People in south western Nova Scotia tend to favour haddock and pollock in ground fish and they tend to export most of the cod they catch but it wasn’t always the case in all of Nova Scotia but in south western Nova Scotia that seems to be the trend. Today we will prepare and we have prepared fish cakes made with pollock. The importance I find the taste is special unique and especially when you prepare fish cakes you can really distinguish because of its color between the potatoes that you use in your fish cakes and the fish itself. It’s rich in color and so the, you can’t use the salted Pollock in the particular state, we have to unsalt it, there are two methods to either to soak it over night in cold water and give it one boil in the morning or just boil the fish twice, remove the water, put new water and it will be enough to make the fish consumable in various dishes. One of those dishes is the fish cake which is very popular still and I know a great seller where restaurants offer it. This is the fish cake finished product served with chow-chow pickles and tomatoes, it’s and excellent excellent dish for fish lovers all over the world. I know that I absolutely enjoy a good fish cake along with chow. Mmmm! That’s, it’s a very tasty delight coming from our sea and land.
 

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