Day: August 14, 2011

That it’s not frozen processed fishcakes or lobster rolls with jalapenos (although there are definitely some hots in there), but strictly the real Gloucester’s Finest Kind?  The 2012 Gloucester’s Finest Kind calendar presents 12 of Gloucester’s working and one retired gillnetter, dragger and lobster boats and their crews as they really are – hardworking, hardy, fun loving, good looking men (and one lovely young woman) who make their livelihood from the sea, provide us with fresh fish and lobsters (whether previously liberated by Buddhist monks or not), and are part of that beautiful industry that made Gloucester great.  January features the crew of the Degelyse, and Captain Tuffy with two large unliberated lobsters.  Zach Jewell on the Lady J so naturally struck the perfect pose and was just too cute not to be on the cover.

The historic and beautiful small commercial fishing industry is in decline, drowning in the myriad state and federal regulations governing the industry.  A portion of the proceeds of this calendar will go to the Northeast Seafood Coalition, a 501(c)(6) organization dedicated to working with government regulators and environmental concerns to preserve the long-term health of fishery resources, fishing communities and the fishing industry.  The calendar will be available at Khan Studio and the Good Morning Gloucester Gallery at 77 Rocky Neck, or if you are out of area, you can order your’s at http://www.khanstudiointernational.com/gloucester%20fisherman%20calendar.htm.  Celebrate Gloucester’s beautiful industry every day of 2012, and be a part of the solution. 

E.J. Lefavour

www.khanstudiointernational.com

Be Sure To Tell Da Godmuddah Happy Birthday!  We Love You Baby!

Photo David Cox

Cape Ann Skeptics in the Pub will meet August 16th. The program will be “A Skeptical Look at  Economics

– What to make of all the conflicting theories being espoused today?” In this presentation, Mark Warhol will present an uncommonly commonsensical guide to the follies of economics. His talk is based on the work of Ha-Joon Chang, professor of economics at the University of Cambridge, England.

The meeting will be held at the Dog Bar, 65 Main St., Gloucester. As usual, we will gather at 6:00 to meet each other and order dinner and drinks. The program will begin at 6:45.

We hope to see you there. What better time to look skeptically at economics? www.capeannskeptics.com

I was gonna go on a long rant after reading this but with my Bhuddhism and all the kinder and gentler Joey will just pass this along for your amusement.

Thank you to the dozen or so of you who have forwarded me this story from the New York Times about the guy in the Upper West Side of New York who has been selling freshwater crawfish meat as lobster for at least 15 years (I guess New Yorkers wouldn’t know the difference anyway)

Lobster Salad, but a Key Ingredient Was Missing

Only the name has changed. The ingredients remain the same: wild freshwater crawfish, mayonnaise, celery, salt and sugar.

For at least 15 years, Zabar’s, the Upper West Side grocery with the big crowds and even bigger prices, sold that as lobster salad — thousands and thousands of pounds of it, by itself in a plastic tub or on a bagel or a roll. Apparently no one noticed.

Then Doug MacCash, a reporter from The Times-Picayune of New Orleans, stopped at Zabar’s while vacationing in Manhattan last month.

“Lobster salad on a bagel: Why not?” he wrote on Aug. 1 on the newspaper’s Web site. “It was delicious, but the pink/orange tails seemed somehow familiar.”

He checked the label. “Wild fresh water crayfish?” he wrote. “Really? At $16.95 per pound?” He photographed the label, just to be sure.

Mr. MacCash had discovered a fact of New York culinary life that New Yorkers had not: There was no lobster in the lobster salad at Zabar’s.

click here for the rest of the Story at the New York Times website

Hey New Yorkers, for future reference:

Seafood For Dummies:

This is a lobster-

This is a crayfish-

from wikipedia

This is a steroid user-