My friend Del's bison burger was a succulent symphony of robust meat and subtle umami mushrooms and onions wrapped in a crusty flax bun; my Alaskan halibut soft tacos offered a generous portion of firm snowy-white fish uplifted by the creaminess of avocado and tickled by the piquancy of pickled onions, with an undertone of heat that gave me the kick I had been looking for.
The snowy white cod in the fish and chips was coated with a light beer batter, and the Cajun grilled fish (salmon, the night we tried it) was succulent and flaked at the touch of a fork.
The overly salty Champagne sauce detracted a bit from the perfectly cooked fish, but the snowy firm flesh was delicate and delicious.
There, among openings in the floes, they may be preying on marine birds, scavenging on seals killed by polar bears or even feeding on Arctic fish (John James Audubon recorded snowy owls feeding on fish in in northeast during the 1800s).
It's an old-fashioned story of bicycle-riding butlers, snowy country lanes and small fishing boats, told and illustrated with great charm.
For example, aquariums without Gulf Stream fish rarely exhibit the snowy grouper — a puffy, brown fish with white speckles — or the blue spotted coronet fish, a long-nosed creature resembling an eel that grows up to eight feet long and as thick as a wrist.
The lines were a succinct rendering of Nicholas Hughes, a man who joyously devoted his career to the study of fish in Alaska's snowy rivers and whose home, a handsome 2,800-square-foot 2,800-square-foot 2,800-square-foote and bircabinaced tonard the distant Brooks Range.
On a recent morning, the crimson buds of a neighbor's red maple tapped against my window as I watched Dave Avrin dump his fishing waders on the snowy ground like a body in a Mafia hit.
The fish is extremely meaty, with firm snowy flesh of uncommonly satiny succulence and a sweet, mild flavor.
Then maybe a wild salmon from the Spey in Scotland (increasingly rare), or a snowy hunk of halibut — "a nice piece of fish," as I once heard Rex Harrison call it.
