Gourmet Gala at Acura of Peabody benefit for North Shore cancer walk

2018 Gourmet Gala North Shore Medical Center benefit for North Shore Cancer Walk held at Acura of Peabody. Great food, worthy cause, quite a crowd. Live auction featured Gloucester’s Beauport Hotel Getaway. Auctioneer was Kiss 108FM Billy Costa.

DAVIO'S May 4 2018 Gourmet Gala fundraiser for North Shore Medical Center North Shore Cancer Walk at Acura of Peabody ©c ryan

(scenes from the Gala – click to enlarge, and again for full size)

Legal Sea Foods serves up protest dinner of ‘blacklisted’ species article from Steve Urbon

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By Steve Urbon

surbon@s-t.com January 25, 2011 12:00 AM

BOSTON — As America goes green with sustainability, Legal Sea Foods restaurant president and CEO Roger Berkowitz is seeing red about published guides that he says have it wrong about avoiding some species of fish.

On Monday night, he did something about it.

At his Park Square flagship location, he teamed up with the Culinary Guild of New England, a nonprofit institution, to offer a complete menu of so-called "blacklisted" species, such as hook-caught hake and Gulf of Maine cod caught by day boats out of Gloucester, along with tiger shrimp.

Berkowitz’ point is that institutions such as the Monterey Bay Aquarium are often using outdated or faulty science when they issue their popular "watch lists" to consumers.

A generation ago, Berkowitz said in a broadcast interview that environmental groups such as Pew did much good work a generation ago but are now overreaching. "They’re in existence just to keep themselves in existence," he said. "They keep pushing limits. It’s just unfair."

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