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Sustainable Seafood Teach-In Presentations

admin — Thu, 10 May 2012 16:37:34 +0000

Counting the Fish: What’s Out There under the Sea?

John Williamson, President, Stellwagen Alive!
Vito Giacalone, Policy Director, Northeast Seafood Coalition Gary Shepherd, Fisheries Research Scientist, National Marine Fisheries Service

Gordon Hamersley’s Charred Mackerel Recipe

acuna — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 19:57:48 +0000

Charred Mackerel with Minty Red Currant Caponata and Toasted Pine Nuts
by Gordon Hamersley, Hamersley’s Bistro

Serves 4

¼ cup olive oil
½ medium onion, peeled and minced, about 1 cup
2 stalks celery, peeled and cut into a ¼ inch dice, about 1 cup
3 tablespoons red currants
1 [...]

Barton Seaver’s Mackerel Melt Recipe

acuna — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 19:24:13 +0000

Check out Chef Barton Seaver's mouth watering Mackerel Melt recipe below. This and other ocean-friendly recipes can be found in his book For Cod & Country. Be sure to catch Barton in person as he joins the conversation about sustainable seafood in New England during the April 29 Sustainable Seafood Teach-In.

Abby Goodnough, New England bureau chief, The New York Times

acuna — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 20:02:32 +0000

Abby Goodnough is the New England bureau chief for The New York Times, covering a broad range of issues relevant to the region. Before moving to Boston in 2007, she spent four years as the paper’s Miami bureau chief. She has also covered education and politics in New York and New Jersey. [...]

Barton Seaver, chef/author, For Cod & Country

acuna — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:56:00 +0000

Barton Seaver is a chef, author, speaker and National Geographic Fellow is working to restore our relationship with the ocean, the land, and with each other—through dinner. He believes food is a crucial way for us to connect with the ecosystems, people, and cultures of our world. While he was a chef he [...]

Jenn Abelson, Business writer, Boston Globe

acuna — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 19:25:24 +0000

Jenn Abelson is a business reporter for the Boston Globe and covers the retail and restaurant sectors, consumer spending, the business of sports, and other financial matters. Abelson recently completed a five-month investigation that revealed widespread fish mislabeling at restaurants across Massachusetts. The series, “Fishy Business,” was co-authored by Boston Globe reporter [...]

Gordon Hamersley, Chef-owner, Hamersley’s Bistro

acuna — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 19:15:18 +0000

Gordon Hamersley started cooking as a student at Boston University in the early 1970s. He began his career at various French restaurants in the Boston area. In 1979, he escaped New England winters and moved to Los Angeles, where he trained at the famed Ma Maison restaurant under Wolfgang Puck. It was there that [...]

John Williamson, President, Stellwagen Alive!

acuna — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 19:09:27 +0000

John Williamson began a fishing career out of college in 1974, as a captain or crewman on commercial fishing vessels operating in New England, Florida and Alaska. He is skipper of the F/V Sea Keeper, a 40 foot vessel outfitted for specialty charters. He does professional consulting in living marine resource management [...]

Gary Shepherd, Fisheries Research Scientist, National Marine Fisheries Service

acuna — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 18:22:47 +0000

Gary Shepherd is fisheries research biologist at the NMFS Northeast Fisheries Science Center, Population Dynamics Branch in Woods Hole. He began his career at the Center in 1975 while a student at Southeastern Massachusetts University (now UMass-Dartmouth) where he received his B.S., followed by a graduate degree from Rutgers University in 1983. [...]

Why the Farm Bill Matters

admin — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 19:06:59 +0000

Food activists call this a special window in time to make sure the 2012 Farm Bill supports an agenda that puts a higher premium on sustainability than it does on the status quo.

Almost no one claims to understand the Farm Bill. It runs 663 pages (in very fine print), with a 14-page table of contents, [...]