About Seafood

Last night I had about a dozen pals over for dinner as a warm-up for long holiday weekend. And an excuse to try another couple recipes from La Cucina Italiana. I made three types of spiedini, the Ital...

The economy may be down but the television doctor business is booming these days. You cant turn the channel with out bumping into characters like The Doctors or Dr. Oz. It was only last week that both...

Last night I made, with the glorious help of one of our guests, grilled mahi mahi with herb rice and a zucchini shrimp salad. It was a twist on a recipe I found in La Cucina Italiana, a magazine Ive n...

The New York Times Blog, Green, is reporting that a new study suggests people need to be more wary of saltwater fish than freshwater fish because mercury in seawater is more likely to stay in its toxi...

All the stars in daytime television were out last night for the 37th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards. We couldn't help but notice that Dr. Mehmet Oz snagged an Emmy for top day time talk show host. As a re...

The Gulf is wounded right now. Its natural resource is battered and its human resource is tested but its still alive.This is the time when you would expect vulchers to show up... and wouldnt you know ...

George Foreman is an Olympic gold medalist and two-time world heavyweight boxing champion who knocked out Joe Frazier and lost to Muhammad Ali in one of the most famous fights in history, The Rumble i...

My 2009 fish dish of the year was sesame-orange shrimp and Im formally nominating the cumin grilled sea scallops with chickpea salad and red pepper-tahini vinaigrette I made last night for my 2010 dis...

Imagine this for a moment, if you will. Brain Williams has just done a repot on the Obama administrations response to the Gulf oil spill and theres a fare bit of criticism leveled at the White House.T...

This week is sandwiched between two rich with restaurants last week was engulfed with work and next week we have friends visiting.So were going to try and make most every meal at home and started wit...

Due to a beyond busy work week for both Lloyd and I, most of the dinners I had planned didnt happen. And a lot of eating out did.I got my second seafood meal in today with an albacore tuna pita from A...

The U.S. Justice Department announced that it filed a False Claims Act suit against R&J Feed Co., Jerry Goodwin, Richard Carter and Carter Livestock Inc. for allegedly profiting from the improper expo...

I had planned a blog entry that was chock full of famous quotes about war profiteers and scammers who swept in after tragedy to make a name or buck in the ensuing chaos but I stopped. I decided instea...

What is one of the best times to be a seafood lover? Pregnancy. The nutrients in fish give your babys brain a boost. A Seafood Lovers Guide to Eating during Pregnancy turns to experts for the facts on...

Early in my career as a food scientist I would volunteer to be a judge at the local science fair. I was always amazed at the advanced level of science being achieved by the high school students. I don...