{"id":584,"date":"2021-03-29T05:40:02","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T05:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elwoodrestaurant.com\/?p=584"},"modified":"2022-01-12T01:13:29","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T01:13:29","slug":"forgotten-history-planked-american-shad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elwoodrestaurant.com\/blog\/forgotten-history-planked-american-shad\/","title":{"rendered":"Forgotten History: Planked American Shad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"American Shad\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fhre2yNWDxA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Yes I know. Cooking fish on a wooden plank is sooo 90\u2019s, a fad that was everywhere and in every chain restaurant you could think of. However, cooking salmon on a cedar plank is an interesting North American tradition, going back thousands of years. It traces back to the Pacific Northwest where the Indigenous peoples would and still do cook salmon over a fire on planks of Western Red Cedar. Cooking a salmon fillet on a plank is interesting, but what about a different planked fish closer to home\u2026? One that has just as long of a history\u2026<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Of course, I&#8217;m talking about the fish of Fishtown \u2014 Shad. Shad is also a fish that has been cooked over a fire on sticks and planks made of Eastern White Cedar, Hickory, and Oak for thousands of years. It was a valuable spring food for the Native Americans. The Lenni Lenape fished for it in all of the tributaries and rivers, in fact, they petitioned William Penn because the colonists were damming the Delaware with their mills and it was affecting their fishery. Penn made the colonists take down the mills, but treatment didn\u2019t last past Penn\u2019s death. The colonists got a taste for shad and it became a valuable commodity, being salted, pickled, smoked, and sold on streets and at the market. They too would cook shad on wooden planks with bacon. George Washington himself was a commercial shad fisherman.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">So why doesn\u2019t shad have the same renown as salmon, especially in this area? Probably because of the bones. Shad are notorious for having 300 bones per fillet. If someone was late, the Pennsylvania Dutch would actually joke, \u201cWhat? Have you been eating shad?\u201d Despite the bones, it&#8217;s a delicious fish and what better way to eat it than with my family-style meals. Another issue with shad is that it is hyper seasonal. They only run for a very short time, so the season passes very quickly. I love offering shad at Elwood, it&#8217;s a true American culinary classic, and a Mid-Atlantic regional foodway that should be celebrated. I&#8217;ll be running it as long as I can. Check out the video to see me prepare it.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">-Adam<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&nbsp;<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes I know. Cooking fish on a wooden plank is sooo 90\u2019s, a fad that was everywhere and in every chain restaurant you could think of. However, cooking salmon on a cedar plank is an interesting North American tradition, going back thousands of years. 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