I gotta go gastronomic this week, which I’m always prone to do since seafood is my only foray into non-vegetable dining matter. I last ate meat when Lyndon Johnson was in season. Anyway, being a long-toothed pescatarian – and a cookist – I want to alert that local markets are now offering some mighty fine wild-caught Alaskan salmon.

I became a salmonologist beginning right about the time I created the word. My favoriting of salmon improbably harkens back to the kill-that-author book Satanic…