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Had it yesterday at Red'n'Hot Sichuan's London branch, poached and served cold with a sauce of chili oil, red bean paste, a metric shitload of mashed garlic and sesame oil & seeds. Absolutely delicious. Also makes a great soup with pureed butter beans, as often served by Fergus Henderson. Or go traditional and get honeycomb tripe and eat it cold with too much malt vinegar and a tomato and onion salad - my Mancunian Grandmothers favourite.

Thirty-odd years ago and my parents were selling the house and moving cross country. They had read that the smell of baking was conducive to making a sale, and so I was tasked with a daily routine of cookie prep (I was heavily into baking for a seven-year-old). On a particular day, I was told to double quantities, as there was a church fete coming up. Keenly, I doubled sugar, eggs, butter, and flavourings. But forgot to double the flour. Four shelves off cookie mix melted, dripped off the trays and filed the whole house with smoke. No sale that day. But lesson learnt.

Pedants corner (that is in no way intended to denigrate a valid commentary on the locavore fad) - it is MaldOn salt : www.maldonsalt.co.uk

It appears to be a common mispelling, however, as can be seen to it's best effect here: http://www.amazon.com/8-5-oz-Malden-Sea-Salt/dp/B0000U2R1A

Maldon salt comes from Essex, so is roughly equivalent in terms of UK geographical prejudice to, say, Coney Island salt.

What is the prevalence of farmed fish in the US? Farmed salmon in the UK is the new battery chicken - flabby from packed holding tanks/nets/cages, dyed flesh - no pink plankton to eat, toxic with heavy metals and other fat soluble nasties, and hugely polluting, both with their fecal matter and the vast quantities of anti-parasitic drugs and antibiotics needed to keep them in one piece. Taste and texture are very poor, too. Mind you, 3/4 of the population only eat fish if its skinless fillets in orange crumb.

BTW - the cycling fish comes from a feminist slogan (either Gloria Steinem or an apocryphal graffito) and was probably best refuted in the Guinness television advert from 1996 - http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=KTT2-TNuegM

I used to live near the MFC (bottom left in your picture) - we referred to it as MutherF***in;Chicken. The UK is full of these places, each more unpleasant than the next. It's not all Ramsey and Blumenthal.