About Seafood

If you follow this blog or fisheries news at all you know that overwhelming evidence has been piling up concerning the benefits of fish consumption during pregnancy and you might also know the joint 2...

One time is a mistake. Two times is a pattern.Back in January Dr. Oz produced a TV show where his advice on fish consumption and his discussion about mercury were way outside the latest up-to-date med...

May 28, Washington, D.C. Two of the worlds top experts on brain health are calling on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to update its 2004 advice on fish and pregnancy because it is out of ...

Tonight I take the red-eye to L.A. for a girls trip with five of my favorite people from grad school.Were all through-the-roof foodies, so Im expecting excellent food for breakfasts, lunches, and dinn...

Last night after a long, hilly route at run club I found myself in a bad way ravenous, yet too physically drained to do anything about it. When Lloyd got home I was in bed with a glass of water and a...

News out of Canada this week looks to science to detect food fraud. Nicholas Low a professor at the University of Saskatchewan is developing a molecular internal tagging system to track food product...

If necessity is the mother of ingenuity, what is desperation? Perhaps shes the aunt who talks a little too loudly at family functions and whose stories dont always mesh with the facts but you put up w...

Last night I jogged a good 4-5 miles with run club then walked directly next door to meet Lloyd and some of his colleagues for dinner and drinks. Im usually get hungry quickly after my 6-7pm run club,...

Investigative reporting on species substitution in restaurants always makes for an interesting story. Reporter visits several area restaurants, orders a fish dish (typically grouper, snapper or some t...

Not eating seafood can be really bad for your health and government communicators need to step up and explain thatthats the conclusion of a new World Health Organization report developed in conjunctio...

A joint report published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the World Health Organization says governments need to do a better job emphasizing the benefits of eating se...

Im back on track with, not only edible, but very tasty lunches. Today I made a simple diced tomato pasta with anchovies, shallots, salt, pepper, and the juice of half a lemon for flavor. Anchovies abs...

Grilling season is here!Well, in Hawaii, its technically always grilling season.But we like to define our seasons by the foods we eat (since the weather, clothes, etc. dont change), so we start grilli...

Lunch was a disaster today. My original plan was to make stir-fried eggplant and tofu.I only had silken tofu, but thought I could make it work.Turns out silken tofu is very silky, and I could not inde...

Net weight violations made the news again this time it was Ralphs, a major grocery chain in California, being charged by the LA City Attorneys office for short weighting consumers. Not just ice-glaze...