Chefs Opine On Changing Oceans

I've got nothing at all against chefs. I'm just suggesting that when a restauranteur and TV personality says something like“Squid is now the dominant species in the Pacific,” Cosentino says. “The waters have changed.”. . . then you might want to fact-check with an actual oceanographer. Or, say, a squid biologist.The quote is from a piece in Men's Journal called Save the Ocean, Eat A Squid--a title guaranteed to raise my hackles. The article documents chef Chris Cosentino's fishing trip to collect Humboldt squid, which he then cooks up for patrons of his San Francisco restaurant.read more

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