Discovering Local Seafood

We were like kids on a field Trip tonight as I joined fellow bloggers at Red's Best seafood distribution center on Boston Fish Pier as the guests of I Love Blue Sea.  We learned so much during this behind-the-scenes peek but the most amazing thing of all might have been: did you know that conch is caught in Massachusetts?  There wasn't a single food writer there who did not think of conch as strictly a warm water, Caribbean catch.  Apparently it is so popular and profitable that the local fishermen from Hyannis told us there is currently a seafood gold rush going on for it.  In this short video Jared Auerbach talks about the conch and today's catch, which we just saw unloaded off the delivery truck.

Full post to follow.