Grilled Salmon with Cilantro Pesto

Japanese eat salmon, but my theory is that because it comes from Hokkaido in the far north, Tokyo people never had fresh salmon. Japanese eat salmon heavily salted or cured and cooked well done. It wasn't until recently that Japanese ate raw salmon and many sushi places still put raw salmon in the "eww" category along with other American sushi innovations like mayonnaise and avocado.

I also see people from Nordic regions eating salmon very rare too.

My wife, who is very Japanese, always finds my American influenced salmon recipes to be way to soft and rare.

In the US, especially the Pacific Northwest, people eat salmon very rare. Nathan Myhrvold, who hails from Seattle, tell us in Modernist Cuisine to pull it from the sous vide at 113ºF.

Kenji López-Alt saysPan-Seared Salmon Fillets with Crispy Skin
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that rare should be 110ºF, medium-rare 120ºF and 130ºF for medium.

I think that today I'll try cooking the salmon to 130ºF using what Kenji López-Alt saysPan-Seared Salmon Fillets with Crispy Skin
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for grilling and making the salmon and some cilantro pesto on the side for the adults.

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