February 8, 2008 by Sara Zoe.

My local fish store (well, my on the way home fish store: Al’s Seafood on rte 1 in North Hampton, NH) has been featuring already cleaned Maine shrimp and Great Bay smelt. This is one of the funnest parts of eating locally with the seasons - the foods that come into their own in the winter.

I’ve been chowing down on the shrimp regularly, especially since they are already cleaned and I understand that the fisheries are pretty sustainable, but smelt . . well, this transplant to New England has yet to get her feet wet. A bit of internet searchery reveals that they are commonly floured and fried, but does anyone have an idea as to the sustainability?

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February 5, 2008 by Sara Zoe.

A little housekeeping: one of my winter tasks is working on individual pages of the Seacoast Eat Local website, along with a much more user friendly, pretty, functional component that we can all use to find and source local food. In the meantime, the little search box on the main website sends me weekly reports about what people are looking for (don’t worry, it isn’t tied to you, just a list of search terms, your privacy is intact), but I realized it points them here and the main site, but not our wiki. So I fixed that, because our wiki is a great resource, and it allows us all to share and contribute sources and organize them in ways we all like (yes, this is a hint - if you’ve got sources, share them! If the wiki isn’t working for you, try email.)

 So to the person looking for eggs, here ya go >

And the other person looking for flour  >

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