The brandade, a mashed potato-fish spread, was just what it should be but didn't set off fireworks.
At the new Seafire Grill in Midtown, you get a dish of ultra-creamy fish spread made by the chef Ted Pryor.
When disturbed, the fish spread and display their fins and, if further pressed, will present and attack with the dorsal spines.
There are also African teas, including rooibos; fair trade chocolates; and condiments like chutneys, peri peri and a nicely funky fish spread from Cape Town called Peck's Anchovette.
Birmingham Indoor Market 50 Edgbaston Street, Birmingham B5 4RQ, 0121-622 0200, birmingham.bcc.uk/markets.bcc Open Monday to Saturday, this indoor market features a good variety of different fish spread across 16 separate stalls.
When the tide comes in, lots of fish spread themselves out across the salt marsh and feed.
That includes chiktay, a flaky smoked fish spread spiked with Scotch bonnet chilies, a grilled conch dish called lambi boucane, and the seafood creole shown above.
Son of a Gun is Shook and Dotolo's version of a Bob Seger-playing Florida fish shack on one of the lesser keys, a place you'd make a drive to for the fried-chicken sandwiches, smoked fish spread and shrimp sandwiches on white bread, peel-and-eat shrimp and a token plate of sweet baby back ribs.
The third component, 'varied Norwegian', was characterized by food items typical of a traditional Norwegian diet, such as fish and meat for dinner, brown bread, regular white or brown cheese, lean meat, fish spread, and fruit and vegetables.
After one-week acclimation zinc deficiency was induced to a group of fish spread over four tanks by changing to reconstituted water without additional zinc supplementation and providing a low zinc (26 mg kg-1) diet.
