Mexico: Seafood for the Holidays

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27

PROGRAM #10637 12:00 PM PT 

Mexico Edition: Seafood for the Holidays. This program explores the gastronomic wealth of the Mexican coasts and the typical fish and seafood dishes of the New Year’s holidays. Restaurateurs share recipes with traditional flavors of Mexican cuisine, such as seafood pozole, ceviche tostadas, seafood soup, dried shrimp tamales, sardine sopes and more. They talk about how they make sustainable purchases of seafood and how they support sustainable fishing. Additionally, an expert of the world-famous Monterey Bay Aquarium in California explains the forward-looking Seafood Watch program, an initiative to assess top US fisheries and rate seafood based on environmental sustainability and help inform consumers’ seafood purchasing decisions. He discusses what is sustainably-caught fish and the Seafood Watch list. 

Guests: Miguel Castellanos, Senior Aquaculture Researcher, Seafood Watch Spokesperson, Monterey Bay Aquarium, Monterey, CA; Hector Palacios, Chef, La Paz, Baja California Sur, MX; Guillermo Echeverria, Chef, Co-Owner, Arrecife Grill & Mar y Arrecife Cine, Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, MX; Victor Rodriguez, Contributor, Ensenada, Baja California, MX.

Photo: Gobierno de México

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