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6 Tips for Eating Awesome Asian Street Food

| Food Travel Articles

If you’re a foodie, it doesn’t get much better than Asian street food. The sounds of sizzling woks, grilling meats, bubbling curries, and simmering soups mingling with the fragrant aromas and bright colors of fresh chilies, spices, lemongrass, fruits, and exotic vegetables of all shapes and sizes is a feast for the senses. Experiencing Asian […]

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The Best Bone Broth for Dogs

| Bone Broths

That’s my sweet pup, Lipton, in the picture above. Isn’t she a beauty? I think she’s the most adorable dog ever, though I may be a little biased about that. We’ve been trying out an organic bone broth made specifically for dogs recently. Bone broth for dogs is becoming quite popular and for good reason. […]

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The Little-Known Nutrient in Seafood Soups

| Gut Health

In case you were guessing, the little-known nutrient in seafood soups is NOT omega-3s. Everyone knows about the health benefits of omega-3s. I know it. You know it. Your mother knows it. My mother knows it. Every doctor, every health website and every major health organization has been telling us this for decades now. Heck […]

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Mercury in Seafood: Why We Should Stop Worrying

| Gut Health

For decades we’ve been told mercury in seafood is a concern. On the surface, it sure makes sense. Though mercury occurs naturally in the environment, industrial sources like coal burning power plants increases mercury in the atmosphere which settles in our waterways and gets consumed by fish. Larger fish eat smaller fish and so it […]

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4 Reasons to Stop Eating Farmed Shrimp

| Nutrition Articles

What follows is an excerpt from my cookbook, New England Soups from the Sea. Though the book includes 80 recipes for chowders, bisques, stews, and medleys, only one, a Portuguese Shrimp Mozambique, features shrimp. That doesn’t mean we need to stop eating shrimp entirely. But I do want the reader to be aware of the […]

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Why and How You Should Eat Like a Fish

| Nutrition Articles

You might think that in New England, with its rich and storied relationship to the sea, there would be a deeper connection to local seafood than in most places. Eating with the Ecosystem, a nonprofit whose mission is to promote a place-based approach to sustaining New England’s wild seafood, set out to find out. In […]

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Why and How to Join Community Supported Fisheries

| Nutrition Articles

Community Supported Fisheries (CSFs) are the seafood version of the increasingly popular Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) programs in which members of a community pay a one time upfront fee for a weekly share in a local farms’ seasonal output of fruits and vegetables. Similarly, in a CSF, community members pay upfront for a weekly or […]

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Watch Me Eat a Tarantula in Cambodia

| Food Travel Articles

Yes, I’m really going to eat a tarantula (and a few insects). Now DON’T scan down to the video yet.  Let me first tell you why I ate a tarantula and why this is a fairy common thing here in Cambodia. Eating tarantulas (and other spiders) is actually not a traditional practice in Cambodia. It became widespread […]

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