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NEWS ABOUT: seafood

seafood stories: 16 news summaries

(Newser) - You might suspect a sushi restaurant that doesn’t specify what sort of tuna you’re eating of trying to pawn off an inferior species. Not so. Researchers using novel DNA barcoding technology found that though nearly a third of tuna sold in 31 US restaurants was the prized—and... More »

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endangered species • FDA • restaurant • delicacy • seafood • dining • sushi • Food and Drug Administration • overfishing • bluefin tuna • truth in advertising • DNA barcoding

check, please

 The Biggest Restaurant No-Nos 

Owner lays down the law with these rules for staff

Oct 29, 09 3:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - The seafood restaurant Bruce Buschel is building will have excellent service—or else. Some staff members, he acknowledges, "will no doubt protest some or most of what follows," but he's the boss, and he presents 50 rules in his New York Times blog. A tasting menu:
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servers • restaurant • seafood • dining • restaurant industry • waitress • waiter

'White Wine With Seafood' Rule Is No Fish Story

High-iron reds make a poor accompaniment, scientists confirm

Oct 23, 09 12:38 PM CDT
(Newser) - Researchers conducting intensely necessary studies have confirmed what connoisseurs have always told us: Red wine doesn’t go with fish. Tasters tried 38 red wines and 26 whites while noshing on scallops. They discovered that wines with higher iron content—meaning most reds—unpleasantly accentuated the seafood's “fishy” taste.... More »

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study • wine • seafood • dining • women's issues • wine pairings

food critic's lament

 70-Year-Old Lobster 
 Deserves Freedom 

Larry's plight stirs conscience of restaurant writer

Oct 23, 09 11:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - Restaurant writer Ryan Sutton has dined on his share of lobsters, but the plight of one venerable crustacean has left him without an appetite. "Larry" is a 70-year-old lobster at New York's Oceana restaurant awaiting its fate as a $275 entree. Sutton admits he's never given much thought to... More »

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New York • restaurant criticism • animal rights • seafood • lobster • women's issues • Oceana

DNA Testing Snags Fish Imposters

Restaurants often swap cheap fish for pricey ones on menu

Aug 24, 09 8:38 AM CDT
(Newser) - If you ordered grouper ($12 per pound) at a restaurant, and the chef slipped you catfish ($2.50 per pound) instead, could you tell the difference? Most diners can’t, which is where Mahmood Shivji comes in. Shivji’s a DNA researcher, who’s developed a method of testing the... More »

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DNA • fish • restaurant • seafood

(Newser) - Many people quake at the mention of anchovies, but if history is any judge, those people are dead wrong, Howard Yoon writes for NPR. In the past, the fish was “so highly prized that it was used to make a condiment, garum, during the Roman Empire that cost as... More »

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fish • seafood • umami • anchovy • packaging • condiment • preserved

 Lobster 'Fiona' 
 Is 1-in 30-Million 
 Phenomenon 

Fiona is a 1-in-30-million genetic mutation

Jun 11, 09 5:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - The one-in-30-million special at one Boston eatery isn’t on the menu. Caught off the Canadian coast, “Fiona” is believed to be a rare yellow lobster. The spotted 7-year-old (the coloring is actually closer to orange) is fed sushi-quality tuna and will eventually be sent to live at a... More »

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Massachusetts • wildlife • seafood • lobster • crustacean • yellow lobster

 140-Year-Old Lobster Liberated 

Restaurant heeds PETA call to let old-timer return to the sea

Jan 10, 09 3:04 AM CST
(Newser) - A lobster almost as old as the Lincoln presidency will return to the ocean today after being freed by PETA, the Village Voice reports. The animal rights group persuaded a New York City seafood restaurant to release George, estimated to be 140 years old, and plans to free the old-timer... More »

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animal rights • PETA • seafood • marine life • lobster

 At Deep-Sixed Prices, 
 Consider the Lobster 

Cost of crustaceans hits 25-year low

Dec 10, 08 10:56 AM CST
(Newser) - Prices are dropping on all sorts of luxury goods—and lobster, now less than $10 a pound, is no exception. It’s the lowest price in 25 years, and might not last as fishermen give up on the trade. Spending $30 for the star of a weeknight dinner at home... More »

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recipes • seafood • food prices • lobster • financial crisis • economic downturn

 Fish Farms,
 Retailers Hatch
 Green Standards 

Whole Foods leads way as aquaculture becomes eco-friendly

Jul 16, 08 6:42 AM CDT
(Newser) - Supermarkets are tightening the net on farmed seafood products as demand for environmentally-friendly products grows, reports the Washington Post. Aquaculture now supplies more than half of America's rising demand for fish and shrimp and retailers are working with producers and green groups to make sure the farmed products are both... More »

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Greenpeace • farming • Whole Foods • fish • seafood • World Wildlife Fund • aquaculture • sustainability

opinion

 Dear Lobster,
 I Hardly Knew Ye 

A conscience-clearing letter to the author's slain-in-the-name-of-succulence dinner

Jun 11, 08 12:25 PM CDT
(Newser) - Francis Lam eases his guilt about chowing down on a certain tasty crustacean by creating an unlikely enemy on his dinner plate, writing an open-ended letter to “Lobster” in Gourmet. He's not sorry for chowing down, "for your meat was like butter and nuts," but his... More »

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delicacy • seafood • food industry • lobster

OPINION

Pairing Leaves Writer Red-Faced

Times oenophile comes out of shell, tries vin rouge with his oysters — and lives!

Feb 29, 08 5:25 PM CST
(Newser) - Oysters and red wine? "Why not?" asks Eric Asimov in the New York Times. Wine pairing as a science can drain a meal of its pleasure, while instincts and taste-testing add adventure. After Parisian waiters twice recommended red with a foodie blogger's oysters, Asimov traded the usual suspects (muscadet,... More »

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food • wine • drinking • seafood • red wine • wineries • Champagne • oysters • pairing • muscadet • Chablis • Guinness • Dorie Greenspan • Arbois trousseau • Jacques Puffeney • Morgon • Marcel Lapierre • Chinon Les Picasses • Olga Riffault • Givry • Chofflet-Valdenaire

Couple Finds Rare Pearl in Clam Dinner

Purple pearl at local restaurant
could be worth thousands

Jan 2, 08 4:00 AM CST
(Newser) - A Florida couple found an extremely rare purple pearl in their steamed clam dinner that could turn out to be worth thousands of dollars. The two stopped for seafood at a local restaurant when the man bit down on something hard in one of his middleneck clams. When cleaned off,... More »

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Florida • seafood • jewelry • gems • pearls

Fish Farming
Wiping Out
Wild Salmon

Sea lice could doom some species to extinction, study says

Dec 13, 07 11:01 PM CST
(Newser) - Fish farming could drive some species of wild salmon to extinction, a new study says. Canadian researchers found a direct connection between the growth of such farms in British Columbia and a sharp drop in wild salmon nearby, the Washington Post reports. They attribute the problem to deadly sea lice... More »

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farming • salmon • fish • seafood • British Columbia • aquaculture

Let Them
Eat Fish!

Scientists' advice that pregnant women eat seafood contradicts fed mercury warnings

Oct 4, 07 5:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - Contrary to federal FDA recommendations, pregnant women and nursing mothers should eat at least 12 ounces of seafood a week to help promote fetal brain development, according to the National Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition. The government has been warning moms-to-be and nursing mothers not to eat more than 12... More »

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pregnancy • women's health • fish • baby • methyl mercury • seafood • breast feeding • nursing • omega-3 fatty acids

FDA Flags Chinese Seafood

Officials put the brakes on imports of species tainted with unapproved drugs

Jun 28, 07 6:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - Add farmed seafood to the list of unsafe goods imported from China. The FDA will detain three varieties of fish as well as shrimp and eel, the agency said today, after tests revealed the presence of antibiotics and antifungals that aren't approved in the US for use in aquaculture. The... More »

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China • banned foods • food • FDA • drug safety • imports • contamination • seafood

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