Shopping for fish

Shopping for fish SHOPPING FOR FISH Check the name, make sure there is a latin name so you know what you are really buying. Just google it when you get home. Atlantic Cod ( Gadus morhua ) Check the ingredients for additives. You really don’t want any, especially STTP. Get the right fish for your…

The dawn of a new era. NOT!

The Artic Dawn is a crab fishing vessel that was made famous in the TV ‘Deadliest Catch series in approximately 2010. It came to fthe fore again in the same year, when in caught fire in the lake Washington ship Canal. However, it was not a vessel of infamy like a boat of a similar…

Oh Canada. Time for the salmon

Its June and the summer fishing season is starting in British Columbia, so it’s time for all the wild caught salmons, the Black cod and the Pacific halibut. I’ll come to the salmon in a minute, but first, the product you’ll see being touted over the next month are the BC spot prawns. They are available…

short-sightedness

I get all excited when I read articles or hear about how Covid 19 is making us think about how we live our lives, specifically how people are rallying around, helping one another. There have been many wonderful stories out there. It has also been true in my business here in Hong Kong where members…

Carpe diem- it’s essential

Seize the day. Can you? Will you? Last week I wrote about the anticipated changes in our various personal Modus operandi, the way we live our lives and the way we operate. The Covid19 pandemic has affected us all and I intimated how maybe it was a ‘wake up call’. I talked about a ‘slap…

Forced to Learn

We live in interesting times. There is no doubt that the way we go about our lives in the future will never be the same. The Covid-19 pandemic has affected us all dramatically. Here in Hong Kong, even before the bug arrived, we were hit by the protests. A double whammy. A South China Morning…

Seafood and pine nuts, a healthy diet

I needed cheering up this week. So, a chuckle came from a strange place. New Scientist magazine published an article by Alison George, about Neanderthals and their diets. Excavation of a coastal site in Portugal has revealed Neanderthals dined on a menu of seafood with a side of meat and pine nuts, a mixed diet…

When the going gets tough……..

Well these are extraordinary times. There has been mention that they are akin to a war. I can probably assure you they are not. Talking to my in laws about world war II in Hong Kong, they recall the streets being relatively quite, but people still going about there lives. Kids playing, business as usual…