About Seafood

An Oregon man named Allen Heckard once reportedly sued Michael Jordan and Nike because Mr. Heckard apparently looked too much like the basketball star in his Nike gear and the unwanted attention was a...

My girlfriends and I have created a well-balanced tradition of running a 10k race on about one Sunday morning per month and then going out to eat for breakfast.Because races are all over Oahu, and we ...

Yesterday Lloyd and I cooked our first real dinner since hes been back. After 7.5 months of cooking essentially all my own meals, he sweetly stepped up to the plate to make caper-rosemary tuna.OK, I k...

Lloyd is home!His flight landed Friday right on time at 11:30pm and our friends and I immediately scooped him up with hugs and love.He had to scurry off to check-in and return his weapons, and then fi...

June 15, 2011 Washington, DC Adding to a coalition that already makes up nearly 70 percent of the imported Blue Swimming Crab market in the U.S. the NFI Crab Council announced yet another company has...

This is a huge week.After 7.5 months working as a Judge Advocate in Afghanistan, Lloyd is on his way home, and set to arrive in Hawaii late Friday night.Im outrageously eager to greet him and spend ev...

My good friend Katherine recently sent me furikake seasoning as a thank you gift. Yes, in my weird world, a Japanese condiment of sesame seeds, salt, sugar, and seaweed constitutes a fantastic gift.I ...

Google Alert was busy this week with media pick up of Oceana's awareness campaign on seafood fraud, including some good coverage of the Better Seafood Board. But interspersed with these stories are...

This morning I was up at 4:30am in Hawaii to watch the live stream reveal of USDAs new food icon, MyPlate. This simple dish replaces the not-so-simple MyPyramid as the image to help Americans apply ad...

June 2, 2011, Washington, D.C. In a very back-to-basics move, the USDA has scrapped the often maligned food pyramid for a cleanly-designed plate icon that illustrates for consumers important takeaway...

Last week I was in Chicago for a meeting to brainstorm how to break Americans barriers to eating fish-rich diets.Arguably the most important brains in the room were a couple chefs, who came up with si...

My dear friend Chere turned 33 recently, and gave us all the gift of a celebratory fish fry featuring walleye from her home state of Minnesota.Deep-fried food doesnt make it onto the blog too often.No...

The Department of Justice announced the sentencing of Thomas Katz of Burlington, Massachusetts and Universal Group Inc. for purchasing and selling falsely labeled fish. Mr. Katz was sentenced to one y...

If you cover the seafood community at all, you know the group leading the fight against fish fraud is the Better Seafood Board. Yesterday, what some might see as an unlikely ally announced its intenti...

Tilapia is a popular, farmed fish that is generally imported to the U.S. Its also apparently on the hit list of a University of Georgia microbiologist named Michael Doyle. You might have read recently...