No need for the cooking of the fish. I don't even cook fish in my own house all that often and I like fish. I just want to go there. I may need to eat something while there if simply to enjoy the pure pleasure of eating again. Sigh and alas, no gum on the juice fast. It gets your saliva moving and activates the digestion proces... blah, blah, blah. I just cling to the fact that I am losing a lot of weight. I better fit into some hot looking jeans by the time I come up there!