Perhaps the toughest to decipher is lox and smoked salmon, specifically cold smoked salmon. Like smoked salmon, lox is salmon that's been cured in salt (and sometimes other seasonings) and is ...

Lox is traditionally a salt-cured fillet from the salmon's belly, an area with the fattiest and richest meat (similar to a pork belly). If you've never had it with a bagel and cream cheese (or a ...