Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shad is a fairly healthy fish that's low in mercury and high in omega-3 fatty acids and can be delicious if prepared the right way ...

Outside the Oyster Bar, at Grand Central, a giddy sign announces the news that sends many food lovers into a tizzy every spring: SHAD IS HERE! The roe is the delicacy gourmets go nuts for. Its tiny ...

Heat butter and olive oil in a large, heavy frying pan until just smoking. (Cast iron is nice.) Season a pile of flour to taste with salt and pepper. Dredge roe through the mixture and lay gently in ...

For a traditional spring dinner you can cook shad roe to accompany the fillets. Season the roe with salt and pepper to taste, lightly coat in flour and cook just as you would the fillets. Garnish with ...

Essay: Bonny Wolf's Shad RoeWeekend Edition essayist Bonny Wolf rejoices in a sign of spring that not all of us have had the pleasure of experiencing: the running of the shad and the delicacy of shad ...

You know it’s spring in tidewater Maryland when, along with forsythia, blooming cherry trees and butter-colored daffodils, the American shad — Alosa sapidissima — course up the Chesapeake Bay from ...

I can't complain one bit about starting off the season by getting seven out of nine picks correct. It wasn't a perfect week, but I'm still a little rusty. The ...

A lot of people don't know that types of fish have a season -- just like tomatoes, peaches and other landlubber food. But George Streblow, the owner of Sea Products on West End Boulevard, knows. And ...

Smithfield Foods has posted its first quarterly profit since the swine flu outbreak more than a year ago led to a steep decline in sales. The Chinese and Russian ban on pork product imports may also ...

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