NORTH ATLANTIC SEAFOOD. By Alan Davidson.

(1979) 2003 new paperback edition. 4to (176 x 246mm). Pp512. B/w illustrations, extensive bibliography. French-fold covers.

New revised edition. I have about twenty good books on fish and shellfish cookery. After Jane Grigson's 'Fish cookery', this is the most used of them. Davidson was a career diplomat who joined the Foreign Office after wartime service in the RNVR. Much of his writing explores the cuisine of the places he worked in. His first published book (with Giorgio Bini), Mediterranean Seafood, began life as the privately issued Seafood of Tunisia and the Central Mediterranean, written for his wife while living in Tunis. Davidson also had a spell as ambassador to Laos.