About Seafood

The Conference for Food Protection (CFP) meets every other year to allow representatives from the food industry, federal, state and local governments, academia and consumer organizations to address em...

the Columbia Journalism Review (CJR.) Apparently CJR finds, in its latest edition, that the online version of many a magazine is lacking in the conventional copy-editing and fact-checking department. ...

The editors at Time have made change after change to this story, trying to bring it up to their standards, but perhaps a forest-for-the-trees issue has set in. You see, you can report the facts to the...

The Justice Department announced the 28-count indictment against Karen L. Blyth of Paradise Valley, Arizona, David H. M. Phelps of Scottsdale, Arizona, and John J. Popa of Pensacola, Florida for consp...

Time.com has once again edited its piece on tuna. Thats two sets of corrections in two days. But were really at a point where the piecemeal editing and backtracking has exposed grave flaws in not only...

Since I've been working remotely - really remotely...over 5,500 miles from the National Fisheries Institute (NFI) offices in Washington, DC - I feel more productive and balanced, but do miss visi...

Attrition is defined as, the wearing away of a surface, typically by friction or abrasion. In the case of our on-going challenge to Time Magazine to print the true story on tuna I have to wonder aloud...

Well, Time.com sure made some significant changes to that tuna article it botched yesterday. But heres the questionis begrudgingly editing an erroneous report in order to come more in line with the ac...

Today I got real creative over lunchtime. First, I came up with a new tuna sandwich combination:1) Mix chopped apples, yogurt and/or mayo, and chopped jalapeo together.2) Spread on a piece of whole wh...

When I think if Time magazine, or even Time.com for that matter, I dont think of agenda driven hacks or sloppy sensationalists trying to out do the competition. I think of solid journalists who, for t...

Examiner.com is an interesting publishing model that hints at the future of journalism; citizen reporters lending their eyes, ears and expertise to an evolving, organic news site. But what can sound ...

February 23, 2010 Washington, DC- Connecticut's Department of Consumer Protection publicly put short-weight seafood on the radar with Monday's announcement that half of the frozen fish packages it tes...

State of Connecticut announces that 50% of the frozen glazed seafood tested in retail stores was found to be short weight. Connecticuts study was part of a 17-state marketplace survey to study the pr...

I don't normally post leftovers because things would get a little repetitive around here. But today's lunch leftovers barely resemble the dinner they began as last night, so I'm posting both....

When a dish has me Googling travel information to its country of origin, you know it's delicious. Turns out it takes 25-35 hours and at least $2700 to get to Marrakech, Morocco from Honolulu, so th...