Ever consider eating Kita? Or do you feed it to your cat?
How many times have I told visitors not to eat Kita?
Kita is the name Ivars’ puts on the chum salmon, cheap stuff we in Seattle also call catfood.
Kevin Bailey of Crosscut claims that chum has gotten a bad rap over the years. He says that for $7.50/lb for a thick fresh fillet. add a little garlic and chum is great.
“My host was owner and skipper Pete Knutson, a Puget Sound gillnetter and anthropology professor at Seattle Central. “Knutson and his sons operate Loki Fish Co., a family business that delivers fish directly to the consumer. Loki touts its responsible fishing, careful treatment of the fish product and of sustainable seafood made possible at the edge of a metropolis where ecology and cooking go together.
According to Bailey’s article fresh kita salmon from Puget Sound has no resemblance to what is left after the fish swim upstream to spawn at the end of their life in salt water. Loki Fish Co.‘s chum is nothing like the snaggle-toothed mushy fish Alaska’s Yup’ik people call it “dog salmon” because they feed it to their huskies.”