Rising Demand, Main Reason for Higher Seafood Prices

Hardly a day goes by without another story popping up in the media about the soaring price of food, so I think it’s worth another look at what’s behind the rising price of fish.

Oil prices, of course, are one obvious reason. Chasing fish around the ocean costs three times as much as it did two years ago. more

Bluefish Summer

When the blues are running along the East Coast, devotees stream to the shores of Cape Hatteras and Long Island with long poles and hopes of bringing in some of the sporting fish. Smaller fish can venture quite close to shore, while others travel parallel to the shore a few miles out, where they’re fished by boaters. The fish travel in big schools, they have monstrous appetites and they’re fierce fighters—a sportfisher’s dream.

Even if you don’t catch your own bluefish, they make an interesting adventure in the kitchen. more

Fresh Herbs & Fish

A spice cupboard can be a scary place, a bewildering clutter of tiny bottles and ancient tins with familiar names and indistinguishable greenish contents. Perhaps you should be brave and sprinkle with abandon. You sniff something that smells like old hay and decide that isn’t such a good idea. What was that delicious green stuff at the restaurant? more

Salmon Cooking Savvy

When you bring home a piece of salmon from the market, there are a few things to consider: more