About Seafood

I am finally back in DC after back-to-back trips to Boston (work) and Austin (play). The play part involved attending the 2008 Austin City Limits Music Festival with my whole family. The festival was ...

Last night I got my fish fix at a famous Boston-based seafood restaurant - one that brings back warm memories of meals shared with visiting family when I lived here for graduate school. In fact, a...

Today and tomorrow I am in Boston, a true seafood town, for the 2008 Tufts University Friedman School Symposium.I am most looking forward to the discussions about the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for A...

Today, one of my colleagues dropped by my desk to share a selection from her personal cookbook collection, Tin Fish Gourmet by Barbara-jo McIntosh. The more I flip through it, the lower her odds of ev...

The entirety of my evening yesterday was spent peeling stubborn little stickers off candle holders I plan to use at our wedding reception. Because this was a) not fun and b) the first of many tim...

Yesterday for lunch I had a bowl of salty, smoky, tomato-y sardine and green bean pasta. Some consider sardines super strong, but I consider them super flavorful, especially paired with tomat...

Being from Texas, Hurricane Ike definitely hit close to home.My family lives in north Texas, so they only got a little wind and rain.But my fianc's family lives in and around Houston, so they got a lo...

I had a wonderful, relatively lazy weekend, and on Sunday, finally got a chance to make the scrambled eggs with shrimp recipe I was looking forward to trying. It was a big hit (among the large...

This is, at first blush, completely unrelated to seafood. But I am going to make it about seafood. I just found out (courtesy of our wedding photographer's blog) about the most entertaining littl...

I am ridiculously out of food and making a beeline for the grocery store after work, but made it through the weekend thanks to (leftover) fish stew from the freezer. Dinner Friday night was a mug-...