Last Call: Gather 'round kids, let me tell you a crawfish story
Something pretty cool happened yesterday. It took two hours out of my workday, time that could’ve been spent editing…
Cooking from Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles Cookbook: Voila, Skate Wing Grenobloise
All this week, The Takeout’s Kevin Pang will be cooking from Anthony Bourdain’s Les Halles Cookbook and writing about…
Eating shrimp heads becoming more popular
Shrimp usually shows up on your plate denuded of its shell for ease of eating, although we’re still not sure why people…
Panko-crusted fish with Key lime butter is my favorite Florida souvenir
Our family vacationed in the Florida Keys last week. This trip was more warm weather-focused than food-focused, so we…
Cooking with canned crab taught me a nifty new pasta trick
One night, I was jonesing hard for any sort of seafood pasta. Clam linguine, shrimp fra diavolo, mentaiko spaghetti—if…
Let’s make Shrimp Scampi with Papa John’s garlic sauce
Back when I wrote How To Conquer Red Lobster’s Endless Shrimp, I tackled strategies for handling vulgar amounts of…
Make Christmas Eve clam linguine and enjoy the Feast of the One Fish
Christmas, for better or for worse, is a time meant to be shared with family. But we’re all grown-ups here and…
Lucky mothershucker finds a pearl in his oyster dinner
What are the odds of finding a pearl in your oyster? Apparently, somewhere between 1 in 10,000 and 1 in 12,000,…
I’m thrilled fishless vegan “tuna” exists, if only for its punny name
Plant-based meat alternatives are no passing fad. They’re mainstream enough to fill White Castle sliders and strike fear
"Ethical caviar" farm massages eggs out of fish (NSFW)
If you don’t spend your lunchtime slathering hot dogs in caviar like our beloved fancy asshole Drew Magary, you might…
Wait, people eat shrimp tails?
What was most surprising about Kate Bernot’s piece about restaurants that serve shrimp with tail still attached was…
What's the point of leaving the tail on shrimp?
I love a good shrimp scampi, or shrimp and grits, or shrimp fra diavolo. But what is the deal—[Jerry Seinfeld…
Health inspectors investigate Maine restaurant that gets lobsters high before cooking them [UPDATED]
Update, September 24, 2018: In a move that surely no one saw coming, the Maine Health Inspection Program is…
Sour beers and rich seafoods are a pairing made for each other
While I’m in Denver for the three-day drinking marathon known as the Great American Beer Festival, beer and food have…
French navy mobilized to keep peace in “scallops war” with Britain
It sounds almost charming, by today’s geopolitical standards: “Oh look, the Brits and French are having a bit of a…
Oh jesus, man’s arm amputated after bad sushi experience
Today Newsweek brings the world a report in The New England Journal Of Medicine, which details the case of a…
Seafood restaurant politely acknowledges Chicago Bull Zach LaVine’s severe defense allergy
NBA player Zach LaVine has a seafood allergy and a sick burn for which he’ll be needing some ointment, metaphorically…
Maine chefs spare life of blue lobster that was “too interesting to cook”
Scales restaurant in Portland, Maine, received its usual seafood delivery last Friday, but noticed an outlier among the…
PETA puts Maine in a pinch with new anti-lobster airport signs
A trip to Maine is on my travel bucket list, and not least of all because the minute I step off the airplane, I plan to…
Humans piss out so many drugs that Seattle's mussels now test positive for opioids
The rise of opioid use in the United States has had plenty of devastating effects, but the epidemic has now ensnared an…