Everyone knows that fish is good for health.16But it seems that many people don’t cook fish at home. Americans eat only aboutfifteen pounds of fish per person per year, but we eat twice as much fish inrestaurants as at home. Buying, storing, and cooking fish isn’t difficult.17Thistext is about how to buy and cook fish in an easy way.
18Fresh fishshould smell sweet: you should feel that you’re standing at the ocean’s edge.Any fishy or strong smell means the fish isn’t fresh. 19When you have boughta fish and arrive home, you’d better store the fish in the refrigerator if you don’tcook it immediately, but fresh fish should be stored in your fridge for only aday or two. Frozen fish isn’t as tasty as the fresh one.
There are many common methods used to cook fish. 20 First,clean it and season it with your choice of spices(调料).Put the whole fish on a plate and steam it in a steam pot for 8 to 10 minutes if it weighs about one pound.(A larger one will take more time.)Then,it’s ready to serve.
A.Do not buy it.
B.The easiest is to steam it.
C.This is how you can do it.
D.It just requires a little knowledge.
E.The fish will go bad within hours.
F.When buying fish,you should first smell it.
G.The fats in fish are though to help prevent heart disease.