Top Chef Features Sustainable Seafood!
Posted on | October 26, 2009 | 3 Comments
The sustainable seafood movement is making its way through prime time television. This is yet another sign of how important this issue has become.
Top Chef Season 6, Episode 9, aired October 21st featuring sustainable seafood throughout the challenges. Celebrity chef and advocate for the movement, Rick Moonen, served as guest judge and provided contestants with the Monterey Bay Seafood Watch wallet cards. He also hosted the always anticipated “Restaurant War” challenge at his Las Vegas restaurant, RM Seafood, which serves 100% sustainable seafood.
The contestants were encouraged to choose sustainable options to feature in their dishes. Two of the fish species that made it onto the Top Chef plates were Arctic char and black cod (also called sablefish ). If you have not tasted these fish, you’re missing out!
Arctic char is a cross between salmon and trout in both appearance and flavor. Chances are in the U.S when you see this fish on a menu or at a fish market, it was farm-raised in a land-based, closed system, which is usually sustainable and environmentally friendly.
The large white flakes of Black cod flesh melt in your mouth when prepared properly. Once you’ve experienced the buttery taste and feel of this fish, you will think about it every time you walk into a seafood restaurant. Luckily, the wild harvest of black cod from Alaskan waters is very well managed ensuring that we can eat this fish throughout our lifetime.
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October 26th, 2009 @ 3:45 PM
Are both Arctic Char and the black Cod readily available on the east coast? I can not remember ever seeing them on a menu here. Either way I expect one or both for dinner next time I visit B-more.
October 26th, 2009 @ 10:24 PM
You can find them in restaurants, fish markets, and grocery stores like Whole Foods. But they’re not yet as common as salmon and Atlantic cod. Keep looking or better yet start asking for them.
October 27th, 2009 @ 7:17 AM
I love Seafood