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" My favorite way to cook trout is whole, bone-in, on the grill. The fish are stuffed with sliced lemons and herb sprigs, brushed with oil, and cooked over fairly hot coals until the skin is crisp and the flesh is moist and flaky. Go ahead and gild the lily by adding a sauce. "

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" The key to great fried squid is 'flash-frying' in hot oil for only a few minutes, which keeps it tender. "

" Oysters, such as Dabobs, Quilcenes, Westcotts, and Willapas, to name just a few, are often named after the place they are harvested. "

" Catfish's mild taste adapts well to a wide array of flavors, especially strong assertive ones, which is why you used to see it 'blackened' Cajun style on so many restaurant menus - a trick which soon became a tired cliche. "

" Entrepreneurial people are never satisfied. "

" I was $4,000 short on my first payroll. "

" I was once made honorary mayor of my hometown of Newark, Del. "

" I would say a full-time waiter in a high-price house could easily make $75,000, $80,000 a year. "

" I think you owe it to your kids to teach them how to cook - you know, self-survival. "

" Ling cod is a mild-flavored and somewhat delicate fish that takes well to poaching, braising and pan-roasting. "

" I know Jeff Bezos because I cater at his home. "

" Alaska Airlines and I have a lot in common, so coming together to delight travelers with savory, high quality food from the Pacific Northwest made sense. "

" Sweet, delicious Dungeness crab is always a treat. "

" In my 'Big Dinners' cookbook, I recreated my mother's recipe for crab dip. The creamy dressing for this dip, made with mayonnaise, tomato paste, a touch of honey, sliced chives, lemon juice and zest, horseradish and Tabasco, is reminiscent of Thousand Island dressing. "

" Every time you make a fruit crisp for me, you are my favorite person in the world. It's something delicious and warm, right out of the oven. I mean, what more could anyone want? And all you're doing is taking the best fruit of the season, putting a crumb topping on it and putting it in the oven. "

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" I love being able to help promote Seattle to travelers worldwide. "

" At the fishmonger, choose fish with bright scales and clear eyes. "

" The simplest way to prepare Dungeness crabs is to boil them in the shell and set them in front of your guests with crab crackers or crab hammers, cocktail forks, and plenty of napkins. "

" When I was a kid and my mom made tomato soup, she would cut buttered toast into squares and float them on top of each bowl. "

" Be sure to read a recipe all the way through before you cook. The time it saves you in the long run is invaluable. "

" Horseradish is one of those perk-me-ups. You can use it in a cocktail sauce, you can bread fish with it - it loses its punch when cooked. It's a 'What is that?' flavor. It adds depth of flavor to things. "

" Albacore tuna has a mild flavor that's delicious served raw or seared briefly on the outside so that it's still rare on the inside. "

" Some of the best things you do are the things you don't do. "

" Salsa verde is delicious with trout or most any fish. "

" There's something majestic about a 30-pound Chinook salmon roasted and served whole - people get excited when you present it with the head and tail on. It has beautifully browned skin and extraordinary bright red flesh when you cut into it. "

" There's a restaurant in Manhattan called Balthazar, and next to it is Balthazar Bakery. It's tiny, and it's very charming to have that little retail outlet to sell the house desserts and breads. "

" Thanks to the abundance of shellfish in Puget Sound, Washington State is the largest oyster producer in the country. "

" When you watch 'Shark Tank,' everything is about off-shore this, off-shore that. "

" I particularly like to make crunchy slices of garlic bread to serve with steamed clams. "

" I use ginger like garlic. I love it for steaming fish and making barbecue sauces or roasted chicken. "