Originally I was going to title this post “Salmon with Bearnaise Sauce” because that’s exactly what you see in the picture. Whole Foods was selling beautiful fillets of fresh, wild-caught sockeye salmon from Alaska and I couldn’t resist. I found a container of bearnaise sauce we’d made some time ago in the fridge and we [...]
Entries Tagged as 'farmed salmon'
Don’t Eat Farmed Salmon!
July 17th, 2009 · 6 Comments · Sustainability, dinner
Tags: farmed salmon·salmon·vegetables
An Alternative to Farmed Salmon
March 28th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
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 [...]
We are engaging the concerns of a hungry planet--slowly--right here in our kitchen garden in the District of Columbia, about a mile from the White House.
