• Health Blog

    Unsuccessful swap

    Yesterday I went to the grocery store, and when I got home, I noticed that several of my heavier groceries were double bagged. For some irrational reason, two plastic bags per sack throws me over the...

  • Uncategorized Blog

    What Will The AP Report If The Sky Really Does Fall?

    Today the Associated Press (AP) is reporting on a new study that claims "failed policies" have lead to "corruption" and "overfishing" the world over. For a venerable news agency it is an article that ...

  • Health Blog

    Supper Plan Sunday

    Our beach day on Saturday was a blast that left me dog-tired (waking up at 5am to make cooler-friendly chicken salad + five hours of sun). So Sunday we took it easy, called our dads for Fathers' Day,...

  • Uncategorized Blog

    Piven Hits Bottom, Keeps Digging

    Jeremy Piven, is back in the headlines this morning thanks to a piece in People where he tells correspondent Nicholas White that he's been "fish-free' for 10 months now. You'll recall that at the end ...

  • Uncategorized Blog

    Greenpeace, When Idealism Meets Realty

    It's not hard to become enamored with Greenpeace if you don't look below the surface. Save the whales, protect the forest, defend the earth-great goals. But what about distort the facts, destroy the p...

  • Health Blog

    How to use my herbs

    I'm staying on track with our Supper Plan this week, so dinner Tuesday (and lunch Wednesday) was no surprise - whole wheat spaghetti with lemon, basil, and salmon and green beans with creamy garlic d...

  • Health Blog

    Madras shrimp

    My Monday night dinner party was a success, so much so that I forgot to take a picture of all the treats, but did get a shot of the shrimp and rice pilaf. For additional Indian-inspired seafood recip...

  • Health Blog

    Supper Plan Sunday

    We had a busy weekend that involved our favorite restaurant on Friday (Sushi Sasabune)... ...an attempt to surf (underscore, attempt) on Saturday... ...and lots of errand running on Sun...

  • Health Blog

    Food blogs

    You may have noticed that I recently added the Foodie BlogRoll widget over there in the right sidebar. Foodie BlogRoll keeps track of and randomly promotes over 4,000 food blogs. If you click through ...

  • Uncategorized Blog

    Sushi Story Prepares To Sink Piven

    This week actor Jeremy Piven takes his "I got mercury poisoning from eating too much fish and had to bail out of your play" argument before an arbiter as the play's producers seek money from the hard-...

  • Uncategorized Blog

    Responsible Journalism

    It was just yesterday that I sent the following letter to CNN International challenging its coverage of tuna. June 9, 2009 Byron Harmon Senior Executive Producer CNN International VIA Email Dear...

  • Health Blog

    Chuck wagon dinner

    My hectic travel routine will come to an end in just a few short hours when I board a plane for my final trip home to Honolulu. Final, that is, until our next Texas wedding in July. But that means I'...

  • Uncategorized Blog

    Celebrating The Oceans Through Distortion

    I have written it so many times I must sound like a broken record. When explaining the way Oceana prefers to communicate I say it, "continues to operate in that gray area between skillfully under info...

  • Health Blog

    Trout in Texas

    I am back in Texas, partly for work and partly for fun. The work part includes a lunch meeting yesterday with the American Pregnancy Association at, appropriately, Rockfish Seafood Grill Restaurant. ...

  • Sustainability Press Release

    Its Groundhog Day for Greenpeace

    WASHINGTON, D.C. June 1, 2009 If Greenpeace remains a creature of habit, rather than responsible actor, it will unveil a third set of retailer rankings this summer that grade U.S. grocery stores bas...