Marc and I went out to dinner with our friends Jim and Jen on Friday night to one of our favorite Italian eateries - Enzios. Wine flowed, conversation bubbled and I'm pretty sure I convinced Jen to come to Napa with me for the Carneros Half Marathon (might have been the wine talking on both our parts!).
As Marc pondered the specials: some sort of steak with marsala-marinated wild mushrooms or a wild-caught grouper with piccata sauce, Jim was working some texting magic on his new super phone. Within seconds he was telling us that grouper was probably not the best fish to be eating, from a sustainability POV. Apparently grouper is a long-living fish (it changes sex as it ages!) and is often over-fished. Grouper also has levels of mercury that may be a health risk to adults and children.
How did Jim get all this information from his phone? I found out in today's IdealBite newsletter: Blue Ocean Institute FishPhone. Send a text to 30644 with the message FISH in all caps, followed by the name of the fish you want to know about, and it'll fire back sustainability info on that species. Or, check it out online: FishPhone.org.
Considering Marc is not a woman of child-bearing years, is limiting his red meat intake and he eats relatively little fish anyway, he went with the grouper.
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