A perfect day for Bananafish.....

Ich geb's zu, Salingers Kurzgeschichte hat mich nicht losgelassen und so ging ich auf die Suche nach Bananenfisch...Der erste fand sich dann gleich hier oben, Salinger muss noch mehr Leute inspiriert haben, denn es gibt eine ganze Reihe websites gleichen Namens.Ich war überrascht, denn ich erwartete eigentlich nur ein paar Rezeptseiten...

Salinger's short story got me and so I went looking for some banana fish...On top the first one I found, Salinger must have been a source of inspiration not only for me, there are lots of websites of the same name. I was surprised as I expected just some recepies...

Wie zum Beispiel diese hier.... - As for instance these ones...
1. Fischfilet mit Bananen-Kokos-Curry-Sauce...

2. Thunfischsteaks in Kokos-Bananensauce....

3. Indonesischer Bananenfisch (ohne photo)...

56 weitere Rezepte zum Thema Bananenfisch gibt es hier....

And here two recepies wihout photos, but they sound yummie...as the second one sounds classical, I decided to copy it...

1. Chilie Orange Fish fillets with Banana...

2. Banana Fish

Banana Fish Ingredients

1/4 c

Flour

2 ts	Curry powder

1/4 ts

Soy sauce

4	Bananas, peeled & halved

Lengthwise

1 lb	Fish fillets

1 tb

Oil

3	Stalks celery, sliced

4 tb

Butter

2 tb	Lemon juice

Banana Fish Instructions:

Mix together flour, curry powder, and soy sauce; coat bananas and fish with this; set aside.
Heat oil in skillet.
Stir-fry celery until crisp; set aside.
Add butter to oil; saute bananas until golden, about 1 minute on each side.
Sprinkle bananas with half of lemon juice; remove to serving dish.
Saute fish in oil/butter mix until fish comes easily away on a fork, about 3 minutes on each side.
Sprinkle with remaining lemon juice.
Place on serving dish with bananas.
Spoon celery over fish.

In Rodrigues haben wir massig Bananen und ausgesprochen guten Fisch..., auch wenn die lokale kreolische Küche beides eigentlich nicht miteinander mischt,... ich glaube, heute ist ein herrlicher Tag für Bananenfisch! -

In Rodrigues we have lots of bananas and in fact some excellent fish too, ...the local creole way of cooking usually does not mix both, however, I think today might be a perfect day for bananafish!

Jerome David Salinger - RIP

Er schrieb nur einen einzigen Roman und der wurde zumindest in den 70er Jahren gleich Pflichtlektüre bei uns im Englischunterricht..."Der Fänger im Roggen" beinflusste bereits eine ganze Generation vor mir, war Bestseller und blieb Kultbuch. Weniger bekannt sind seine Kurzgeschichten, wie z. B. "Ein herrlicher Tag für Bananenfisch", mit dem seine Karriere eigentlich begann. Am 27.1. starb J.D.Salinger, und erst mit dieser Meldung im tagesschau newsletter fiel mir wieder ein, wie oft ich mich beim Ansehen des Covers gefragt habe, wofür denn wohl seine Initialen stehen und dass ich dem nie nachgegangen bin...-Just a single novel and it became a must for English literature classes, at least when I went to school in the 70ies..."The catcher in the Rye" influenced already a whole generation before me, was bestseller and remained cult book. Less known his short stories like " A perfect day for bananafish", with which his career in fact started. On 27 January, J.D.Salinger died, and it was just then, when I learned about his death that I remembered having never looked up his initials, something which came always into my mind when seeing the book cover... RIP, Jerome David Salinger! Here a small obituary from the New York Times...
"J.D. Salinger, the elusive and enigmatic author of “The Catcher in the Rye,” has died. He was 91 and lived in Cornish, N.H.

Mr. Salinger’s literary representative, Harold Ober Associates, announced the death, saying it was of natural causes.

Published in 1951, "The Catcher in the Rye" became Mr. Salinger’s most famous work with its distinctive depiction of its angry, iconoclastic teenage protagonist, Holden Caulfield. Mr. Salinger frequently dealt with the subject of precocious youth in his short stories of the Glass family, as well as "Fanny and Zooey", a collection of two long short stories. He had not published a new work since 1965, and lived in near-total isolation, having refused the attention of the literary world and the news media for decades.

In their statement, Mr. Salinger’s representatives said that “in keeping with his lifelong, uncompromising desire to protect and defend his privacy, there will be no service, and the family asks that people’s respect for him, his work and his privacy be extended to them, individually and collectively, during this time.”

The statement added: “Salinger had remarked that he was in this world but not of it. His body is gone but the family hopes that he is still with those he loves, whether they are religious or historical figures, personal friends or fictional characters.”

Please find full obituary about Salinger's life and work in the New York Times here

Sources and photo credits:
tagesschau.de/dt. (1), FAZ (3/dt)/16.06.2005, Bernd Hagemann (2)"ein herrlicher tag für bananenfisch"/29.01.2010