About Seafood

If you read this blog with any regularity you know we're constantly reminding the press about our objections to many of the seafood pocket guides that have been proliferating in recent years. In short...

Last night it got late quick and the thought of take-out Mexican trumped the salmon I had planned. So I bumped the salmon back for a luxurious lunch today.I was so distracted by how well the delicious...

Plenty of people have been having a laugh or two over the news that researchers from Kentucky State University want to rename Asian Carp, changing it to "Kentucky Tuna." Even Stephen Colbert from the ...

Last night I got the bulgur boiling for my veggie burgers, and realized I was missing a fairly integral ingredient the canned pinto beans.Or any canned beans.But what I did find in the pantry was a c...

I seem to start the week off often with canned/pouch fish for lunch. It just works so well when leftovers havent had a chance to pile up yet.Today I made a tangy tuna pasta with shallots, capers, and ...

It's been a little more than a year since the Hearst Corporation ceased publication of the print edition of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Since then, the newspaper has lived on as an online only pro...

The 4 servings of risotto with clams I made last night became 2 generous servings for Lloyd and I. It was really good, and with all the stirring, we didnt eat it until really late.I substituted basil ...

We often mention the broken windows theory when we encourage FDA to focus some resources on economic fraud violations. The willingness to cheat or not understand the economic regulations (e.g., net we...

The parmesan-crusted tilapia I made Tuesday night was pretty good, but if Im going to put almost a cup of cheese on my fish, Id like to be able to taste it. It unfortunately seemed to melt away to not...

Profiting off of tragedy or at least attempting to is a theme weve seen before with the Gulf oil spill. Call it cashing in on a crisis, call it profiteering, call it whatever you want but its going on...

We don't mean to beat a dead horse, but every time Jeremy Piven comes out to tell his story about sushi and mercury, NFI feels the obligation to remind the rest of the world that we think his story do...

We started and ended Independence Day with hikes. The first was the most harrowing wiliwilinui trail, wet.The easy part was clawing our way up compared to the scary slide down.A little lounging on th...

The Justice Department announces that a jury found a fish wholesaler and two of its employees guilty of purchasing illegally harvested striped bass from the Potomac River in Virginia and Maryland from...

July 2, 2010 Washington, D.C. Two of the worlds top experts on brain and neurological development are being joined by 125 others in calling on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to update it...

In a June 15, 2010 Warning Letter to Union Development Frozen Foods Co., LTD. in Taiwan, Republic of China, FDA warns the company that labeling a species with an inappropriate name would cause the pro...