My lifelong favourite fish, kingklip, flakes beautifully and, if cooked with care to be slightly underdone, can be a minor masterpiece of good eating. Kingklip well deserves being treated with respect ...

Ground turmeric lends both flavour and colour to kingklip. Equal quantities of the golden spice and dried crushed garlic with a hint of white pepper did the trick. Fiddling with flavour when cooking ...