Showing posts with label Buyer Beware. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Buyer Beware. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Delacata? No thanks, I'll have the catfish.

From Saveur comes this little tidbit tucked away in their story about catfish, which I take as a warning that repackaging means adding cost, not value.
Later this year a small percentage of U.S. farm-raised catfish will be sold as filets labeled delacata. Processed from larger fish, the custom-cut filets will be more than twice the size of regular catfish filets and sold at a higher price. "Let's face it, 'catfish' is not the best name, especially for people outside the South," says Jeremy Robbins, a marketer for the Catfish Institute, the industry group in charge of the makeover, which farmers hope will propel a fish with an inferiority complex beyond the deep-fried South and onto a bistro menu near you.

Classic King Cake

Taste of the South photo Traditional for Mardi Gras, this is worth spending the time on.  A few years ago Taste of the South magazine publi...