{"id":1248,"date":"2012-03-13T05:25:20","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T21:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/?p=1248"},"modified":"2012-03-13T05:25:20","modified_gmt":"2012-03-12T21:25:20","slug":"whiting-fish-the-best-bargain-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/2012\/03\/whiting-fish-the-best-bargain-around\/","title":{"rendered":"Whiting Fish: the Best bargain around?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1249\" title=\"whiting\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/whiting.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/whiting.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/whiting-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>I came across this fish yesterday at Grocery Outlet.\u00a0 I was a bit reluctant to buy it because it was only $4 for a 2lb bag &#8211; at least one third the cost of most fish I buy.\u00a0 But it was the only fish I could find at that store that didn&#8217;t come from China or Vietnam (instead, it was wild caught in the US), so I figured it was worth the risk.\u00a0 I think it was.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacseafood.com\/default.aspx?page=171\">Pacific whiting<\/a>, also known as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/North_Pacific_hake\">Pacific hake<\/a>, is a relative of the <em>merluza<\/em> I grew up eating in Argentina.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a medium-sized fish, with relatively fragile flesh and a distinctive, somewhat sweet, flavor.\u00a0 It has a greater oil concentration than other species, so it tastes fishier than most of the white fish I usually eat (catfish, cod, sole, tilapia, etc.).\u00a0 This flavor was too strong for my daughter, and didn&#8217;t particularly thrill my husband either.\u00a0 I liked it, but probably because it took me back to childhood.<\/p>\n<p>That said, if I was cooking just for the adults I would definitely buy it again, specially at $2lb!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this fish yesterday at Grocery Outlet.\u00a0 I was a bit reluctant to buy it because it was only $4 for a 2lb bag &#8211; at least one third the cost of most fish I buy.\u00a0 But it was the only fish I could find at that store that didn&#8217;t come from China [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,53],"tags":[135,232],"class_list":["post-1248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-items","category-grocery-outlet","tag-fish","tag-hake","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}