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New England seems to celebrate seafood more than any other region.
Of course it's gonna be big in any coastal area. The Gulf coast has a rich culinary tradition, too, of course.
Hows that? I'm not familiar with NE.
I mentioned both because both have seafood delicacies, as well as the poor who rely on seafood to survive.
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I love sashimi. I go for sushi here in Chicago and get it at least once a week. The place I normally go loves me, and gives us up to 40 pieces when we get the 20 piece plate I could eat it every day.
Sushi and raw fish have gotten a lot more popular the past 10-15 years when you can basically fly fresh fish in within hours to almost any restaurant in the country.
My hometown of Iowa City had one Japanese steakhouse growing up, and I just looked and they now have 13 sushi restaurants. I went to one of them last time I was home, it was packed and had good food. I asked the manager how they get their fish, and he said they have multiple distributors who load up fish at different points and immediately make the 10 hour drive to the Midwest and unload them at the restaurant. They have a few shipments a week so the fish is always as fresh as possible. The place I go to in Chicago has it come in on a plane from the distributors and trucked to his restaurant, so it's as fresh as possible and never frozen.
One of the things that surprised me most was seeing a flatbed truck in Iowa City selling all sorts of shellfish to people downtown. Turns out this guy lives along the gulf coast and will load up his truck with shellfish straight from the water, leave at 9pm and arrive in Iowa City at 9am to sell it to people. He then makes stops in towns to the north of Iowa City and then heads back home to Louisiana.
Hows that? I'm not familiar with NE.
I mentioned both because both have seafood delicacies, as well as the poor who rely on seafood to survive.
I'm not sure that seafood is really a poor food in all regions. In New England, for example, the two staples are cod and clams, but certainly in the case of cod, and to a lesser extent clams, over fishing has really limited supply, driving up the price. Cod is now one of the most expensive fish, whereas it was indeed once a staple for lower income families.
As for your question about how it is in New England, I can best answer by comparing it with my experiences in California, also a big seafood region. In California, fish is popular, but it is not the center point of local cuisine. In New England, not only is it a major food element, it is also a major cultural element. If you think about the Groton's fisherman, that is an image from Gloucester Massachusetts, one that is very much alive and well today. Fishing isn't just something that happens here, it is a major industry. There is a giant codfish hanging in the gallery of the Massachusetts statehouse, and the coast of New England is even shaped like the face of a cod (Cape Cod got it's name for geography, not for the fishing grounds). This level of cultural connection is not found in California. I suspect you'll see something similar in some of the gulf coast communities and the Pacific Northwest, but probably not anywhere else.
I'm not sure that seafood is really a poor food in all regions. In New England, for example, the two staples are cod and clams, but certainly in the case of cod, and to a lesser extent clams, over fishing has really limited supply, driving up the price. Cod is now one of the most expensive fish, whereas it was indeed once a staple for lower income families.
As for your question about how it is in New England, I can best answer by comparing it with my experiences in California, also a big seafood region. In California, fish is popular, but it is not the center point of local cuisine. In New England, not only is it a major food element, it is also a major cultural element. If you think about the Groton's fisherman, that is an image from Gloucester Massachusetts, one that is very much alive and well today. Fishing isn't just something that happens here, it is a major industry. There is a giant codfish hanging in the gallery of the Massachusetts statehouse, and the coast of New England is even shaped like the face of a cod (Cape Cod got it's name for geography, not for the fishing grounds). This level of cultural connection is not found in California. I suspect you'll see something similar in some of the gulf coast communities and the Pacific Northwest, but probably not anywhere else.
Not for poor people. A region where seafood is a staple of culture will have people eating seafood on a day to day basis and it's not always the wealthy. I don't think California is an option here (sans the Asian population). The gulf coast too has a huge fishing industry that rivals, if not surpasses, that of New England.
New England is 2nd. Lots and lots and lots of seafood consumed, but the variety seems to be "fish & chips", lobster, and clam chowder....and that's generally it.
New England is 2nd. Lots and lots and lots of seafood consumed, but the variety seems to be "fish & chips", lobster, and clam chowder....and that's generally it.
One area that has been ignored so far in this thread is Georgia/South Carolina coast and Sea Islands.
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I could eat it every day.
