About Seafood

A few weeks ago, we shared a preview of a Mother Jones article about Tuna and Mercury. Now, Mother Jones made the entire article available via the Web. Now that the piece is going to be distributed to...

When we deliver the real facts about mercury in fish, backed up by the latest science, it appears groups like Oceana don't like it too much. Case in point; back on September 17th the Fort Myers News P...

Last night I got my fish fix at a famous Boston-based seafood restaurant - one that brings back warm memories of meals shared with visiting family when I lived here for graduate school. In fact, a...

Today and tomorrow I am in Boston, a true seafood town, for the 2008 Tufts University Friedman School Symposium.I am most looking forward to the discussions about the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for A...

Today, one of my colleagues dropped by my desk to share a selection from her personal cookbook collection, Tin Fish Gourmet by Barbara-jo McIntosh. The more I flip through it, the lower her odds of ev...

The entirety of my evening yesterday was spent peeling stubborn little stickers off candle holders I plan to use at our wedding reception. Because this was a) not fun and b) the first of many tim...

Yesterday for lunch I had a bowl of salty, smoky, tomato-y sardine and green bean pasta. Some consider sardines super strong, but I consider them super flavorful, especially paired with tomat...

So it looks like the Chicago Tribune is completely satisfied that Michael Hawthorne's latest story about mercury in seafood meets its high journalism standards, an interesting development given the pa...

Decline in Fish Consumption Among Pregnant Women After a National Mercury Advisory
Authors: Emily Oken, et al.
Harvard Medical School
Journal: The American College of Obstetricians ...

A Quantitative Risk-Benefit Analysis of Changes in Population Fish Consumption
Authors: Joshua T. Cohen, et al.
Harvard University School of Public Health, Harvard Center for Risk Analysi...

The Chicago Tribune fears that it wasunclear in its previous letters. They wrote back yesterday to reiterate that they believe Mr. Hawthorne's article was "factual and fair." But this rather terse an...

Being from Texas, Hurricane Ike definitely hit close to home.My family lives in north Texas, so they only got a little wind and rain.But my fianc's family lives in and around Houston, so they got a lo...

There's an old newsroom saying, "If it bleeds, it leads." You know the one that claims violence, gore and conflict drives readership and viewership? It's the same one that relegates good news to a sub...

Here's a look at our latestletter to the Tribune. I am eager to hear back from them and without sounding catty I fear the managment may be ignoring our requests. With that in mind I must say,perhaps p...

I had a wonderful, relatively lazy weekend, and on Sunday, finally got a chance to make the scrambled eggs with shrimp recipe I was looking forward to trying. It was a big hit (among the large...