🌍 North Atlantic / Nordic and Scottish tradition
🕰️ Indigenous cold-smoking: ~10,000 years; modern London cure: 19th century
The smoky, iodine edge of salmon against the cool, lactic brightness of crème fraîche. Opposing textures that balance on the palate.
Two fish, two textures. The silky tenderness of Dover sole against the dense, smoke-cured flesh of salmon creates a fish-course symphony.
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