Chef has a solution—Let them eat carp
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(Photograph by Leslie Streicher and Rebecca Dolan/Medill News Service.)
(Photograph by Leslie Streicher and Rebecca Dolan/Medill News Service.)
Chef has a solution—Let them eat carp
Rebecca Dolan and Leslie Streicher, Medill News Service | Posted: January 29th, 2010

02/28/2011 Shore

Despite having been a chef since his early teens, chef Philippe Parola hadn’t encountered Asian carp until a fateful day boating when two giant fish literally leaped into his boat. The first thing that came to his mind was to cook them.

“This is the most incredible quality of fish I have come across in years,” the Baton Rouge, La.-based chef proclaimed.
Parola has made Asian carp his culinary specialty and has become an evangelist for the fish that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has been fighting to stay out of Lake Michigan.  MORE...
 
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