(Sample of pan seared tuna) If you can believe it, I have even more photos from the IBSS. This set today is from a cooking demonstration at the cooking theater that day. The Phillips Seafood Company had some of their corporate chefs cooking up some of their products. My feet were screaming for a rest...

There was a sense of manifest destiny around this dish when it came together for me the other day. I was coming off my seafood high from the International Boston Seafood Show, I had found some huge super jumbo raw shrimp on sale for $9.99/lb (thats good around here), and I had been hankering for...

What is a Mantis Shrimp? Well, you are looking at three of them in the photo above. I was walking through the IBSS and came across some Southeast Asian seafood purveyors who had some interesting displays, this one included. These animals are much larger than most shrimp, you would likely need two hands to hold...

When my daughter and I went to the 2007 International Boston Seafood Show this last Monday, we got to meet Kathy Maister and Stephen from startcooking.com and stephencooks.com respectively. Wow, what a couple of awesome foodies and food bloggers. We were chatting (after various mishaps in trying to find one another in that huge place)...

I am now processing some of the photos I took at the International Boston Seafood Show of 2007. Here are a couple fun shots of a motorcycle tricked out to look sorta like a shark and fish. Its sorta reminiscent of the fish car I shot at last year’s show. Much more later. Technorati Tags:...

Last year the kind people at the International Boston Seafood Show gave me a press pass so that I could cover this event for the Well Fed Network. I wrote an article for the Growers & Grocer’s blog (article link) and a few for this blog (Auto-design that has gone to the fishes, Ducktrap orgy,...

You can find my latest article at The Well Fed Network and below. Fishing for some clarity One debate about the modern seafood industry focuses on heavy metals and other toxins in the fish we eat, especially large predators such as tuna. The press’s alarmist coverage suggests that we should all stop eating tuna salad...

So, what do you get when you give your advertising department a big budget at a Seafood Company? Fish Pimping that AINT right My daughter asks: “What happens if you go to fast? Do you...

At the IBSS, the Ducktrap company had like 15 different stations with an assortment of free samples of their smoked fish products. I, needless to say, was in ecstasy...

Like I mentioned before, the fish and crustasea I saw at the International Boston Seafood Show was on a par with none I have ever experienced before. While many vendors served fantastic samples, most also had breathtaking displays of almost impossibly fresh, plump, perfections from the sea. I will share a few of those shots...