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Entries Tagged as 'seafood'

What’s for Dinner: Fresh Halibut

June 9th, 2011 · No Comments · dinner, Sustainability

We had the best halibut ever for dinner recently. It had been flown into Washington from Alaska as part of the buyers club organized by friend Sam Fromartz, shipped directly by the family fishing operation that caught it. This was our first halibut. Last year we took possession of some terrific salmon that arrived whole […]

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Portside in Barcelona

October 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · Travel

The port in Barcelona dates to roman days. Now its more likely to be loading or unloading shipping containers, or cruise ships bound for destinations all over the globe. It was far to walk down the Ramblas from our hotel in the Gothic quarter. What’s billed as the world’s largest floating gangplank takes you from […]

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Whole Salmon Over Live Coals

September 6th, 2010 · 1 Comment · dinner

I had reservations about taking a whole sockeye salmon, freshly caught and flown in from Alaska, to a cookout. But it was my wife’s birthday and our friend Bob, artist and frontier cook, insisted he had cooked all kinds of fish big and small over his campfire. So we loaded the salmon in a cooler […]

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