Watching a small restaurant close in a town like Stuart has a subtle, unsettling quality. Not because the news is announced loudly, but rather because it is…

Every time someone mentions an oyster po’ boy they ordered at a hotel restaurant on Canal Street, you’ll hear a certain sigh in New Orleans kitchens. It’s…

You can hear the same sounds that people heard a century ago if you stand on a wharf in Stonington or Vinalhaven before sunrise. Coughing to life…

Lobster isn’t really a meal on the Maine coast, as anyone who has spent an August evening there will attest. It’s a sort of unwritten summertime custom.…

A strange split-screen reality can be found if you walk into any mid-sized seafood distributor on the Gulf Coast right now. A printed shipping manifest with smudged…

The fishmonger isn’t the first thing you see when you enter Market at 25th. It’s the mural by the entrance, the one with the neighborhood map of…

Overcooking salmon can lead to a certain kind of disappointment. You are aware of the time. The fish goes opaque, the white albumin starts pushing through the…

What happens to people when they eat by the harbor in Nafplion is difficult to describe. Despite decades of effort, the majority of travel writers give up…