We were prepping a whole snapper for frying, and I was tasked with cutting up the fish. I knew how to gut and cut a fish — I spent my adolescence on a farm in the Arkansas backwoods, where I ...

If one side of a filet is noticeably thicker than the other, Muir does not recommend butterflying the fish and instead advises home cooks to cut the thicker side in half horizontally to create a ...