Can I get an order of “Fish & Tips”?

The holiday season is approaching, which means that it’s time to look for new ways to spice up old traditions. And just in time for the holidays, Food & Water Watch is releasing its very own sustainable seafood recipe cookbook entitled “Fish & Tips.” The recipes featured are provided by fishermen, chefs, and some of our best submissions from our recent “Get Cookin’ Recipe Contest,” and are all meant to be cooked using sustainable seafood recommended from our Smart Seafood Guide.

While it may be hard to imagine the holidays with seafood, consider this: at the first Thanksgiving, the Pilgrims and the Native Americans actually ate seafood along with their turkey. Whole Foods is putting that concept into practice by having their very own “Shrimpsgiving” – a period of special prices on their seafood, specifically shrimp, so that consumers can have a variety of options for the holiday season. Keep in mind, however, that not all of the offerings at Whole Foods are fair game in terms of sustainability.

If you do choose to buy your seafood there, be sure to only buy those items listed as “safe” in our Smart Seafood Guide and the foods listed on it. For more information about Whole Foods and our concerns with some of their offerings, click here.

When in doubt – try to buy locally instead, and be sure to ask questions about how the fish were caught, treated, and raised. Be sure to choose wild-caught over farmed, and local over imported; choose those that have been exposed to little or no contaminants, and ideally fresh over frozen. If farmed, choose those that require fewer inputs. For more, click here.

Stay tuned for more information on the cookbook’s release and how to obtain your very own copy for the holiday season!(Coming soon.)