Thanks for visiting Eat Wisconsin Fish and participating in Wisconsin Water Week 2021. During the week, please feel free to connect with me, Sharon Moen, an outreach specialist with Wisconsin Sea Grant via email (smoen@aqua.wisc.edu) or by joining the Zoom discussions and Facebook Live cooking demos. Monday,...
"Eat at least two servings of fish each week."* (American Heart Association[1] and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration[2]) With respect to matters of the heart, the American Heart Association and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) tend to put fish on a pedestal. They do...
The American food scene is rich with African American contributions, including many that revolve around fish. Time and circumstances conspired to fade the names and faces of most of the people who left us with a taste for barbeque, soul food, and Creole and Cajun...
Eating food harvested in the U.S. and close to where you’re living is a habit worth cultivating. Most of the fish and shrimp Americans eat comes from other countries.* Perhaps it shouldn’t. Here are five excellent reasons to preferentially put Wisconsin fish on the table: Freshness....
Happy New Year! Millions of people from many cultures value fish as luck-inducing New Year's entrées whether their tables are set on January 1 or on a day defined by a different calendar*. Why fish? People eat fish as one year passes to the next for one...
The Feast of the Seven Fishes is an Italian-American, Christmas Eve tradition that anyone can adopt! What? The Feast of the Seven Fishes started as a nod to the old country by Italian-American families living in New York’s Little Italy during the late 1800s. It is...
This time of year is spiced with nutmeg and seasonal music. Some of the most ardent crooning is done by burbot, a fish that spawns under ice sheets. Burbot are native to Wisconsin and are delicious. They taste like cod. Take a moment to sing...
The answer isn't as simple as one number. [caption id="attachment_6814" align="alignright" width="211"] The Wisconsin DNR published advice for fish consumption.[/caption] The newly updated Choose Wisely booklet issued by the Wisconsin Departments of Natural Resources and Health Services points out that the number of wild-caught fish you might...
Watch the demo! Wisconsin Sea Grant fisheries expert Titus Seilheimer talks about smoked fish while demonstrating one way to make it recipe-ready. [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inT1N6WpppQ&feature=youtu.be[/embed] Video by Bonnie Willison Photo by Marie Zhuikov...
Conundrum: You are in a northern Wisconsin market and you see two smoked fish products. One is labeled "Ciscoes." There are three fish looking as good as a smoked fish can look. The other is labeled "Herring" and the two fish in that package also...
