There are no fryers or ovens, but rather a large flattop grill and stacks of saut pans to cook shrimp, scallops or filets of fish that are finished off in an open broiler. For 32 years, the owners of the Sea Chest restaurant in Cambria have kept luring back customers who want consistency in their seafood and their service. Karen waited tables and made the desserts while Jim cooked, taking customer recommendations on how to prepare a variety of shellfish in their exhibition kitchen. The...

These events were by invitation, and were formal shoots that included afternoon picnics and after-shoot parties in the farmyards. Farmers with fencerows or wood lots planted anywhere from six to 16 rows of sunflowers along fencerows and the shady sides of woodlots, knowing the normal row-crops wouldn't yield as much crop. If you farm or, for that matter, have a large yard with tall trees for shade, you know that crops from corn or soybeans or even grass doesn't grow as well in the shade....

Josef Hebert Associated Press Writer / November 15, 2007 WASHINGTON--Two environmental groups are asking the Interior Department to declare loggerhead sea turtles that inhabit the Atlantic coast officially endangered, maintaining that tens of thousands of the turtles are killed annually by commercial fishing and because of coastal development. Josef Hebert Associated Press Writer / November 15, 2007 WASHINGTON--Two environmental groups are asking the Interior Department to declare...

us Printer friendly version Cabela's, Scheels competition makes area small-business owners ill at ease RAY HAGAR RENO GAZETTE-JOURNAL Posted: 11/18/2007 advertisement An outdoor market advertisement Andy Scholz, owner of The Gilly Fishing Store in Sparks, is wary about the future of his business. us Printer friendly version Cabela's, Scheels competition makes area small-business owners ill at ease RAY HAGAR RENO GAZETTE-JOURNAL Posted: 11/18/2007 advertisement An outdoor market...

On the flensing floor, the men blessed it with rice wine -- then hacked through blubber and sinew with long-handled knives, slicing vermilion flesh from the massive spine. Even though the 1986 international moratorium on commercial whaling applies more to the high seas than to Japanese coastal outfits, it has severely cut supply, driving prices higher and speeding the meat's plunge in popularity. Then butchers at this Japanese fishing village went to work, turning a motorized winch to haul...