tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31699898.post2577408892307237601..comments2023-06-21T03:47:36.240-04:00Comments on The Fly Fishing Rabbi: Keeping a Trout for Dinner?Rabbi Eric Eisenkramerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01459487661743499415noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31699898.post-33814720459915173412010-01-15T08:14:20.033-05:002010-01-15T08:14:20.033-05:00Hi Rabbi,
Discovered your blog after the TU artic...Hi Rabbi,<br /><br />Discovered your blog after the TU article. Very good reading! I love this post about C&R and eating trout. I started practicing C&R almost 3 decades ago, long before I even took up flyfishing, mostly because I just had no desire to kill fish, and the hatchery-reared trout that I was catching in my W.Va. home waters lacked any real flavor unless you could cook them immediately on a campfire.<br />But I think there is something deeply spiritual--and spiritually healthy--about occasionally killing your own meal. In some way, it seems to connect us to the truth of God's providence. To have that experience even once rearranges our perspective in what seems to me to be a holistic, organic sense of the created order.<br />Thanks again for sharing your thoughts. You're heading straight to my bookmarked blogs!<br />JoeJoe Webbhttp://www.faithrants.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31699898.post-64000894568787490692010-01-04T12:48:48.190-05:002010-01-04T12:48:48.190-05:00Thank you Stanley for that wonderful and interesti...Thank you Stanley for that wonderful and interesting response!Rabbi Eric Eisenkramerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01459487661743499415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31699898.post-81058590934234680562010-01-04T12:44:54.110-05:002010-01-04T12:44:54.110-05:00Hi Rabbi,
I am a chef (retired) and in the over 4...Hi Rabbi,<br /><br />I am a chef (retired) and in the over 40 years that I worked in my profession, 20 of those years I was engaged by restaurants that specialized in seafood that were freshly caught. In fact the only frozen product I ever used was shrimp. <br /><br />In the very beginning of my career I worked at a very well know up-scale restaurant in NYC. This restaurant not only had tanks for keeping Maine lobsters alive until ordered by the customer, it also had separate tanks for brook or rainbow trout and black sea bass, which were also kept alive until an order request came into the kitchen. <br /><br />Many restaurants have lobster tanks very few have the ability to keep fresh fish alive until an order request comes into the kitchen. I subsequently worked in other restaurants where if I was able to get “live trout” delivered, I took advantage of having very “fresh” product.<br /><br />Lobsters and a large variety of shellfish that must be alive until used for human consumption, and the aforementioned fin fish species are in-fact the only animals I ever killed. I think I did this procedure in a humane way with as little “pain” to the animal as possible.<br /><br />I remember on a Shabbat evening service, Rabbi Chaim Stern (of blessed memory) told a fable about a fisherman and a beggar; the beggar who was hungry came upon the fisherman at his labors and asked for something to eat. <br /><br />Rabbi then asked this question, and I para-phrase, what is a better mitzvah, giving food to the beggar to eat and send him on his way? Or spend the time necessary and teach him how to fish, so that he too can learn a trade which will then satisfy his hunger of both food and self worth?<br /><br />I do not understand the need for hunting just to hunt, what does it prove? Than one is a better archer or shot then the hunter? That you can out think an animal because you have cogitative abilities? I think that in your blog you came to the correct conclusion. <br /><br />Freshly caught trout of any variety are sweet and delicious. With freshly killed trout and only freshly killed trout it is possible to prepare a dish called in French Truites au Bleu. The fish is poached in a court-bouillon, acidulated seasoned liquid and the natural film that covers the trout is not washed. This is what gives the trout a blue look.<br /> Happy Healthy New Year,<br /> StanleyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31699898.post-63908060229904116442009-12-20T17:40:54.741-05:002009-12-20T17:40:54.741-05:00Good point Martin!Good point Martin!Rabbi Eric Eisenkramerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01459487661743499415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31699898.post-12926888353418778732009-12-20T10:33:31.267-05:002009-12-20T10:33:31.267-05:00if we all had to kill our meals ourselves there wo...if we all had to kill our meals ourselves there would be a lot more vegeterians out there.<br />regards<br />martinUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17120304830374484953noreply@blogger.com