New York Times columnist Mark Bittman last week published a recipe for red snapper (listed as “avoid” by the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch program) and was quite rightly called out by avenging Grist author Tom Philpott. Philpott was, I would contend, overly generous toward Bittman, who described the posting of a red snapper recipe […]
I promise this will be the last time I talk about our favorite Veracruz sauce for a while. But we still had some left over (after at least one other catfish dinner and a breakfast) and so I tried it on a pound of squid. Squid is not to everyone’s taste unless it’s been battered […]
Everybody sells it. But farmed salmon gets a big fat “avoid” from marine environmental groups such as the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch program. The reasons are many: * Salmon are carnivorous. It takes three pounds of fish feed to create one pound of salmon, meaningstressed fish populations are being further exploited to create farmed […]
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