Nick Trachet (°1959) obtained a degree in zoology at the VUB (Free
University of Brussels). He specialised in marine biology and started
his professional career as a fisheries biologist in Surinam. Later on
he joined the FAO in a Fisheries support programme for the South
Pacific. Through the love for the kitchen, his scope shifted slowly
from the living sea to fish as food (post harvest technology). He
tought and gave advise in far flung places, he e.g. showed the
inhabitants of Tarawa how to smoke kippers and he pickled giant clams
in Palau. He also advised the Imraguen of Mauretania to keep chickens
(against flies).
Today, NT contributes to magazines for the fish
trade and industry and acts as a consultant for the private sector.
He also writes gastronomical columns.in Belgian magazines.