About Seafood

As a bit of a detox from Restaurant Week, Lloyd and I ate a very vegetabley dinner last night - big bowls of green minestrone soup. I might have been jumping the gun a bit on hot soup season, but it ...

One of my dear friends, a fellow Tufts Nutrition graduate, once told me that she and her boyfriend spent an entire day in New York strolling through the neighborhoods, reading menus posted outsid...

Ihave hada look atan advanced copy of the Sept/Oct edition of Mother Jones. And I must say "Tuna Surprise" is not much of a surprise coming from such a blatantly agenda-driven outfit. As you m...

Back on March 1, 2008, NFI received an email from /Stephanie Mencimer, a reporter for Mother Jones about a story she is working on concerning tuna and mercury toxicity. Ms. Mencimer submitted a number...

This week the environmental lobbying group Oceana turned its attention towards Wal Mart as it campaigns for retailers to post mercury warning signs. But what Wal Mart and consumers should know is that...

Tonight marks the beginning of a weekend-long DC Restaurant Week spree. Twice a year, the finest spots in town offer $35 three-course dinner deals, and we can't help but to take full advantage. So ...

While Greenpeace is beating the drum over in Europe about canned tuna sustainability and making noise, rather than constructive outreach to people who can make a difference regarding their concerns, r...

Last evening smelled like grilled-burger-heaven in my neighborhood, so I turned to my trusty salmon burger recipe to avoid feeling left out. I mixed in chopped fresh parsley that I had in the fri...

Tired old Greenpeace is once again ranking people and making lists. This time in the UK where they are ranking "tinned tuna" based on issues of by catch. Not being a Brit myself, I'm guessing that's w...

I love happening upon types of food I've never tried before. And restaurants are the perfect place for new-food-test-runs. At a business lunch last Friday, I spotted an intriguing menu item - ska...

Obviously I love eating fish. But there is one sassy elderly woman out of the UK who fancies fish even more. And one bold nursing home employee very devoted to client satisfaction. According to a ...

Today I wanted to share an article I was quoted in this week. Registered dietitian Carolyn O'Neil has a newspaper column, Healthy Eating Out in Atlanta, and did a feature about a fish popping up on ...

This might be one of the more controversial things I could say, but I really enjoy Rachel Ray. She is fun to watch and her food looks delicious. If nothing else, her recipes give me ideas. The ot...

Remember back in 1983 when I was the starting quarterback for the Washington Redskins and we beat the Miami Dolphins 27-17 in Super Bowl XVII? Do you remember? No-- of course you don't because I was ...

Here is my delicious sushi dinner from Friday. For appetizers, we split a tasty roll and an even tastier soft-shell crab. In Lloyd's words, "the average soft-shell crab is about the best thing I'...