There is an old road in Japan that runs from Wakasa Bay to the city of Kyoto known as the Saba Kaido, or Mackerel Road. For centuries, the road was used to carry fresh mackerel roughly 50 miles south ...

Do it yourself cured salmon. Gravlax , as cured salmon is known by its Nordic name, generally is made by dry-curing fillets of salmon in a blend of sugar, kosher salt, fresh dill and a variety of ...

There is some delicious science at play when fish meets up with a salt cure, an age-old technique that came from a need to preserve seafood in a safe yet still flavorful manner. A basic salt-based ...

Salt is my frenemy. But it is also the magical crystal of culinary alchemy. Salt can harden my arteries but also transform raw fish, fowl and meats into delectable morsels through curing. Curing is ...

Smoked salmon, lox, Nova—they’re all the same, right? Nope. These various categories of cured fish have about as much in common as bread and pasta or salad and pickles. Translation? They can be made ...

1 2-4 lb. piece of salmon, belly cut, Faroe Island (preferred) or Verlasso, as close to an even rectangle of uniform thickness as possible for best results. You may want to start with a smaller piece ...

Ideally, to make lox (cured salmon), you need salmon belly, writes Cathy Barrow in "Bagels, Schmears, and a Nice Piece of Fish," "but I'll cure any part of the salmon I'm given. If it's a thinner tail ...

When buying your salmon, try to buy a section from the thickest part of a whole fish, and ask for it to be filleted into 2 pieces, leaving the skin on. To hold the fish while curing, ideally use two ...