About Seafood

Last night Lloyd and I ate at a fun French restaurant in our neighborhood that offers over ten types of les moules (mussels). You'll notice in the before and after pictures, we also ate pom...

Yesterday for lunch I ate some curried salmon loaf from last week. I wasn't sure how well it would freeze, but it was officially just as good reheated as straight from the oven. While I was in the...

Fish School pocket-sized foldout
Learn to shop for, store, and cook seafood.Includes four fresh recipes.Seafood and Pregnancy Flyer(English PDF) (Spanish PDF)
A tool that talks to moms-to-be...

I am finally back in DC after back-to-back trips to Boston (work) and Austin (play). The play part involved attending the 2008 Austin City Limits Music Festival with my whole family. The festival was ...

Just last week NFI held its annual meeting and I had the pleasure of meeting with some really smart engaged communicators who understand the importance of getting the ground truth science about seafoo...

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...