John Westfield

I'm a lifelong cooking enthusiast with a special love for strange and underused ingredients. I hope this blog helps open your mind to more of the wonderful edible treasures around us.

Do salmon have teeth?

Salmon are really big predatory fish and as such, they have plenty of sharp teeth. While dwelling in saltwater, their teeth are deeply embedded in their fleshly lips, but as they enter freshwater territory, their bodies slowly deteriorate and the full size of their teeth is being exposed. The backbone is a series of interlocked …

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How do salmon hunt?

Salmon, like other fish species, use suction feeding to attack their prey and proceed to suck them in their mouths. Following this predatory event, the salmon would then bite its live prey and further proceed to swallow. Suction feeding in salmon is facilitated by a complex interaction between the bones and muscles of the head, …

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Where do salmon breed?

Pacific salmon, of which there are several kinds, spawn in the streams of southern Alaska, British Columbia and the states of Washington and Oregon on the Pacific coast. There is also one kind which breeds in the streams of Russia’s east coast. The females spawn their thousands of eggs and the males fertilize them. How …

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