Source

State Archives of Florida, Series S436

Description

Recipe for lisa guacamole. The Florida Board of Conservation had been attempting to reform the public image of mullet by renaming it "lisa." The hope was that this would allow the Florida seafood industry to begin canning and marketing the fish to customers nationwide as an alternative to canned tuna and salmon. Mullet had a reputation as a "trash fish" in most areas outside of Florida, hence the desire to rename it. "Lisa" was a name given to some species of mullet by Spanish-speaking fishermen. This recipe was used in a lisa fish cookery demonstration put on by Bertha V. Fontaine, a home economist associated with the United States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Commercial Fishing, Fish and Wildlife Service's Marketing Division.

Date

1963

Contributors

Fontaine, Bertha V.

Format

Recipes

Coverage

Postwar Florida (1945-1968)

Topic

Education and Libraries

Subjects

Fontaine, Bertha V.
Home economics
Recipes
Seafood--marketing

Geographic Term

Florida