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Why is wild salmon preferred over farmed varieties? What's the difference between nova salmon and lox? Here's a quick guide to everything you wanted to know about salmon.
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Russ & Daughters
This 90+ year old family-run shop on Manhattan's Lower East Side is famous the world over for its smoked salmon which Marian Burros of the New York Times has called "perfection." The Sunday Times of London puts it best: "Anybody who is anybody buys their smoked salmon from Russ & Daughters." The Wild Baltic and Wild Western Nova smoked salmon are their standout offerings. The store also stocks some of the city's best caviar. Note: Russ & Daughters' smoked salmon is supplied by Acme Smoked Fish smokehouse in Brooklyn. Zabar's, Barney Greengrass and Citarella also get their smoked salmon from Acme. |
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Stonington Sea Products
Top food critic David Rosengarten says of their farmed Atlantic cold-smoked salmon, "this is the salmon I would choose today as the best available." It has also won rave reviews from Food and Wine, Saveur, Bon Appetit and J.W. Apple of the New York Times, who calls it "superbly balanced." |
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Browne Trading Co.
Their farm-raised Atlantic salmon developed exclusively for star chef Daniel Boulud has won raves from the New York Times, Food & Wine and food expert David Rosengarten. |
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Taku
In a 2008 taste test of this country's top mail order cold-smoked salmon companies, Fine Cooking magazine rated this their favorite wild Pacific salmon. |
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wild salmon Cap'n Mike's Holy Smoked Salmon - San Francisco Bay area fisherman Mike Hiebert sells his prized Alderwood Smoked Salmon at the Ferry Plaza Building Farmers Market, a gourmet mecca for San Francisco foodies. Nantucket Wild Gourmet & Smokehouse - Travel + Leisure magazine's "Best of Cape Cod" article calls the wild Alaskan smoked salmon from this Chatham, MA smokehouse "heavenly." Gerard & Dominique - Highly regarded Seattle restauranteurs Dominique Place and Gerard Parrat now make their own smoked salmon. Best known for their "Bruce Gore" Wild Coho Smoked Salmon. Bainbridge Island fisherman Bruce Gore is something of a celebrity in the salmon fishing industry. His fish has been featured on Julia Child's TV show. Customers include The Four Seasons in Seattle, Adolphus Hotel in Dallas, and Morton's of Chicago. Petrossian - This French company is known mostly for its caviar. Its Atlantic smoked-salmon was panned for being "chewy and flavorless" in a New York magazine taste test. But Fine Cooking magazine suggests that tracking down their intermittently-stocked, pricey white salmon is "well worth the effort." White salmon live wild in the Baltic sea. They come from the same species as common, farmed Atlantic salmon, but they obtain their rare, white color because they don't feed on shrimp or krill, which are responsible for the salmon's pink color. |
farmed salmon Sullivan Harbor Farm - The farmed Atlantic smoked salmon produced by this artisanal Maine smokehouse has received rave reviews from Martha Stewart, The Wall Street Journal, Cooks Illustrated and Metropolitan Home. Their products are served at the Ritz Carlton hotels in Virginia and The Willard Room in Washington DC. Durham's Tracklements - Farmed Atlantic salmon smoked in Ann Arbor, Michigan. NY Times' Marian Burros says it makes " the only warm-smoked salmon I have ever liked" and gravlox of which "Scandinavians would be proud." Their Classic Scottish Highland smoked salmon is also a big hit with reviewers. |