Growers and Grocers

This past Monday, I attended the 2007 International Boston Seafood Show and got to sample quite a few products. I also had to pace myself because there were so many tempting foods.
One product that I sampled toward the end of the day was the frozen sushi by Polar Seas (a PDF of their products), a […]

What is a Mantis Shrimp?
Well, you are looking at three of them in the photo above. I was walking through the IBSS and came across some Southeast Asian seafood purveyors who had some interesting displays, this one included. These animals are much larger than most shrimp, you would likely need two hands to hold one […]

Kendle Bryan is an attorney living and practicing law in Alexandria, Virginia. Growing up in a family full of traditions, but none of them culinary, he began his adventures in cooking not at the apron strings of his mother or grandmother, but beside his wife. Since then, he’s taken to cooking with the intensity that […]

Al and Erin Rosas raise all grass fed beef on their certified organic cattle farm located in Marion County, Florida. The Rosas’ also own and operate a specialty and organic food store.
Erin Rosas is a medical research specialist with research concentrated in the area of the cellular and physiological reaction to growth hormones and chemicals […]

Donavan Hall is a writer living on Long Island. He’s a veteran beer drinker, beer brewer, beer traveler, and beer podcaster. He writes about beer for Well Fed’s The Spirit World and other publications including A Good Beer Blog, Lenndevours, and his own blog, Catch & Release. You can listen to Donavan talk about his […]

I’m an itinerant traveler, a lover of literature, and a native New Yorker who’s currently based in Australia. I’ve also been a movie reviewer, a reproductive health researcher, and an independent bookstore owner.
I grew into an everyday cook a couple of years ago when I lived in the historic Central American town of Antigua, Guatemala. […]

In addition to writing for the various Well Fed sites, I combined my cookbook obsession and my love for the written word to form my own site, Sweetnicks. My site’s name comes from my 4-year-old son, Nicholas, who loves to help me in the kitchen almost as much as he loves Dora, Spiderman and his […]

Currently a resident of New England in the US, Liz Loveland has lived in three other countries and in several regions of the US. She has been a vegetarian and a local-produce buyer for over a decade. She is lucky to spend much of her time writing about her passions, including sustainable agriculture, […]

Lucy Arin was born and raised in Ohio. She began cooking at her mother’s side at age 7, and has never stopped being fascinated with the chemistry of cooking. She rarely follows a recipe as written. Because she and her husband both have family histories of heart disease and diabetes, and both work full time, […]

Most people can’t say what they would be doing as an occupation when they were 4 or 5, or even 15. But I am not most people. I don’t remember a time when I didn’t want to be a writer. And although a number of people attempted to talk me out of pursuing writing as […]