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Market Forecast In A Shell
Happy National Oyster Day! Each year I feel that this glorious day gains more and more traction in the national media and in restaurant goers' collective dining conscious. Seriously, as if you needed...
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Seasonal Update: Black Sea Bass
The season is on in Massachusetts for one of the tastiest fish in the sea: the elegant Black Sea Bass. Black Sea Bass are actually cousins to the grouper and their stocks can be separated into two...
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Vendor Spotlight: Samuels and Sons Seafood
Recently, members of the Black Restaurant Group (BRG) team were invited to tour the facilities of Samuels and Sons Seafood, which is located in Philadelphia, PA and nestled within a Mike Schmidt homer...
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Try Them Raw
On my recent excursion to Japan, I came across some things that stuck with me. The grand scale of the Tsukiji market awed me, while the solitude and peacefulness of the temples and culture humbled me....
View ArticleThe Blob
Halloween is over a month away, but October is just around the corner, so if you are like me, that's enough just cause to start talking scary things. Creatures that are spawned from the depths of dark...
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Don't Give Up On Salmon
Recently, a market patron presented me with an idea he received from his doctor: that there was no nutritional value to eating farmed salmon. Perplexed as to why a doctor would prescribe this...
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Outstanding In The Field
Outstanding In The Field (OITF) is a traveling feast that organizes farmers, chefs, ranchers, cheese makers, fishermen, winemakers, foragers, and the people they sustain around a communal meal in order...
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The Science Of Flavor
Here's a good question to get things going: which tastes better, a saltwater fish you catch and eat on the boat, minutes after it is caught, or one you catch and eat a couple of days later? The answer...
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The Best Week Ever?
Nantucket Bay scallop season opened November 1st and, as early as Wednesday November 3rd, we will be seeing our first shipment. Receiving the ocean candy this early is no small feat considering that...
View ArticleThe Bad News Bays
In my last post I waxed poetically about how maybe we were in the middle of the best week of the year, considering that we had both Nantucket Bay scallops and fresh king crab legs available. That week...
View Article"New" Hampshire Bay Scallops
O.K., O.K. I know you foodies who crave great seafood have been severely neglected this year when it comes to bay scallops. Your opportunities to savor the delicious morsels this year have been slim...
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King Of The Offseason
Wild King Salmon season is now closed for the next few months and seafood customers who are conscientious of what they eat are scrambling to find a suitable salmon alternative. If you have picked up a...
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The Future Is Farmed
Predicting the future is never easy. If it were, many of us would already be Powerball champions. But even though most outlooks are hazy at best, there is one trend that looks to have staying power:...
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Another Bay, Another Way
With the winter wrath in full tilt and Nantucket and New Hampshire Bay scallops nowhere to be found, we have yet another player coming through in the bay scallop game. This week, and hopefully going...
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Lobster In A Bowl
Valentine's Day is a day on which we celebrate love and lobsters. They sort of go hand in hand, call it a fashionable tradition. Recent history tells us consumer buying habits prove that on the day...
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Oysters Make Great Lovers
Oysters are for lovers. Lovers are for oysters. Looking to make your Valentine's Day meal something special? I recommend cozying up to the nearest oyster bar and sharing the primal experience of...
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Spring Is Coming, Roe With It
I know spring, and its promise of better climes, is coming soon. Can you guess how I know? Let's just say the porcupine fish told me so. Long ago, before Columbus sailed the ocean blue, the Micmac,...
View ArticleThe Fish With Our Chips
BlackSalt restaurant recently switched out the tilapia in our fish n'chips for a fish that swims wild and closer to our home, the Atlantic Pollack. Our chefs wanted to utilize an underappreciated wild...
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Marching In
The river is green in Chicago. Soon, you'll be able to find loose beads from broken, cheaply made necklaces and empty, oversized decorative beer mugs scattered in the gutters of Boston thoroughfares....
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Serving The Snakehead
It has the face of a fearsome python, but with bigger, sharper teeth. It swims and is considered a fish, but it can also breathe out of water. It feeds on frogs, fish, reptiles, crustaceans, and...
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