Month: October 2012

Phillips Foods Launches Exclusive Seafood Sustainability Blog

October 4, 2012 Phillips Foods

Phillips Foods is pleased to announce the launch of their exclusive sustainability Blog solely dedicated to sharing various global seafood activities. Ed Rhodes, Phillips Foods Vice President of Sustainability & Aquaculture, will host the Blog and post updates on http://blog.phillipssustainablecrab.com/. The Blog reinforces Phillips passionate commitment to global seafood sustainability. Phillips believes that the seafood industry has a major responsibility to improve their source fisheries to ensure a bountiful supply of safe seafood for Operators and their customers for decades to come. …

Eastport Lobsterman Deploys Canadian Technology In New Pound

October 4, 2012 Leslie Bowman, Mainebiz

Maine and its Canadian neighbors have a tightly linked and sometimes confrontational relationship when it comes to the buying and selling of lobsters. One Eastport entrepreneur decided to take what he learned from his Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, counterpart and construct a state-of-the-art onshore lobster pound based on a design concept fully implemented throughout the Canadian Maritimes. …

National Seafood Month Will Be 'Shrimptacular' Thanks To Seapak Celebration

October 4, 2012 SeaPak

SeaPak Shrimp & Seafood Co. is celebrating National Seafood Month in a Shrimptacular way, with a nod to all things shrimp, the country’s No. 1-selling shrimp. Throughout October, SeaPak’s “#Shrimptacular” online promotion will provide seafood lovers the opportunity to receive product coupons and participate in weekly prize giveaways. …

Queso Duro Seco Is Versatile

October 4, 2012 Aimee Blume, Evansville Courier & Press

Mexican cheeses fall into three categories. Most are soft, fresh and bland, resembling Ricotta in different degrees of firmness. Others are salty, pressed and very firm to dry. A few are meltable or stretchy string cheeses. …

Cheese-Peddling Sisters Put Maple Ridge Curds On The Map

October 4, 2012 Mike Hager, Vancouver Sun

Their parents tossed around ideas for several possible business ventures to keep their daughters involved in the family’s rural Maple Ridge property at the edge of creeping suburbia. By last year, only 50 acres remained of the property that Jenna and Emma Davison’s family had owned and parcelled off over the last hundred years. Their dad, Kerry, and his wife, Lynn, thought about a yogurt business, but ultimately decided on artisanal cheese, in part because his brother’s dairy farm was next door. …