Posts Tagged ‘seafood’

Jubilant New Orleans Jazz Urban Agriculture Community (video)

Jubilant New Orleans Jazz Urban Agriculture Community (video)

New Orleans may not be known for its healthy food habits, but thats about to change.

Carl Warner’s Foodscapes: Playing with your Food

Carl Warner’s Foodscapes: Playing with your Food

December 06, 2010 Carl Warner creates an alternative reality – and what a alternative it is…using everyday whole foods Warner creates foodscapes that look delicious, yet other-worldly. He hopes his work will also be used as a vehicle to promote healthy eating – not just pretty pictures made of food, but actually doing some good. [...]

Making a Dungeness Crab Salad

Making a Dungeness Crab Salad

Dungeness Crab is nearing the end of its natural season, and this has been a good year for this crab. Not only is it a delicacy to eat, it’s at the top of the Seafood Watch list (Best Choice) for a sustainable fish. Chef Stu Stein demonstrates how to make Dungeness Crab salad with fennel [...]

KQED’s Quest: the Great White Shark

[Update: Since posting this video, KQEDondemand's YouTube channel has made it for 'private' viewing only. I am hoping they will make it public, as it once was, for it is very informative. Sorry for any inconvenience.] February 01, 2010 KQED just posted a video on YouTube from their program Quest. This episode looks at the [...]

A look into the Edible future

February 01, 2010 Washington Post journalist Jane Black, from her recent trip to the yearly Edible Institute conference in Santa Fe, NM, writes about the food trends seen for the upcoming year. Five are mentioned, including one about CSA’s evolving: “I’ve always loved the idea of community-supported agriculture, but the structure has always been too [...]

5,000 Megawatts and 8 Million Clams: FLUPSY is Cool

January 29, 2010 Ron Masters, a Conservation & Waterways Commissioner (Point Lookout, NY), gives a tour of a solar powered FLUPSY (Floating Upweller System). This clam nursery ‘boat’ helps the community environmentally and economically. “When the baby clams grow big enough to leave the nursery, they are deposited in local beds to support both recreational [...]

Environmental Group Gives First-Time Nod to Sustainable Salmon-Farming Method

January 19, 2010 New way to farm salmon has received endorsement from Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch. The company, AquaSeed Corp., raises the coho salmon from eggs in closed, fresh water pens, at a 1:1 per pound feed ratio. In the past it has been noted that it took upwards of 4 pounds of fish [...]

Fish2Fork ‘names and shames’ restaurants

January 16, 2010 British journalist, Charles Clover, whose book led to the documentary film, The End of the Line, recently launched a new website: Fish2Fork. It’s purpose is to educate and and make known those eating establishments which are serving sustainable seafood vs. those that aren’t. Eaters have an opportunity to participate by posting their [...]