How to Cook Eels (Elongated Fish)
Although eels look like water snakes to me, they are actually elongated fish. There are many species and they can be from 2 inches in length to 13 feet. Most eels live in the shallow waters of the ocean and are nocturnal. But the American eel lives mostly in freshwater and returns to the ocean to spawn. Recipes using eels were common in 1800s cookbooks, but so far I haven’t seen any in cookbooks printed in the 1900s and later….