poissonnier

Definition

The fish specialist in a professional kitchen who handles all seafood prep and cooking.

In a large commercial kitchen, a cook tasked with preparing and cooking (and possibly selecting) fish and fish dishes.

Memory Hook

Poisson = fish in French. The poissonnier is the kitchen's fish PERSON (poisson + -ier). Think "fish-ier" — the fishier the job, the poissonnier does it.