cod
Bacalao, a meal made out of salted dried cod, is a popular Mediterranean dish. We've found it on menus in Italy, Spain and Portugal and its influence has also spread across the Atlantic. It's hard to go into an authentic Italian food market without seeing at least one wooden crate stacked with the stiff dried fish.
"If you want to see tuna around for your children, you should probably stop eating so much of it."
WHAT'S HAPPENING
WHAT'S HAPPENING
We need to be careful about our salmon, cod, shrimp and tuna consumption — for the sake of our oceans.
We need to be careful about our salmon, cod, shrimp and tuna consumption — for the sake of our oceans.
And we're loving it.
When Mike Anderson arrived in Cape Cod in the 1960s as a young man with dreams of adventures at sea, many people shared the same warning: "You won't get rich in the fishing business; it's just a way of life."
For Jackie and me, it is difficult not to buy bluefish at this time of year: when it is as fresh as we find it in the farmers' market, it can hardly be beat for full (not "fishy") flavor and substantial texture.