Stationwagons has made an interesting video about historic diners and the American Diner Museum.

You can see it below (or here). Enjoy!

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Here’s a delicious and easy recipe for a Salmon Tower Sandwich from the folks at Mango & Tomato.

Ingredients:

2 slices of whole wheat bread
cream cheese
dill, chopped
sliced cherry tomatoes (or you can use the regular ones)
smoked salmon

How to Make a Salmon Tower Sandwich

See More of Hugging the Coast’s Fish For Friday Recipes which will help you make the most of your favorite seafood during the rest of the year.

You can also see our list of delicious seafood recipes, organized by type of fish to make it easier for you to find culinary inspiration and ideas.

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The current White House Executive Chef, Cristeta Comerford has some new company in the kitchen. The Obama’s personal chef, Sam Kass has signed on as Assistant Chef for the White House Kitchen.

In addition to his past work for the Obama family, Chef Sam Kass has served as the Executive Chef for Jane Addams Hull House, with a mission to reinvent the soup kitchen by serving quality, nourishing food instead of meals with empty calories which often found in other soup kitchens. Founded in 1889, Hull House remains one of Chicago’s largest not-for-profit social welfare organizations.

(You can find out more about the work and history of Jane Addams Hull House here.)

Kass is also the founder of Inevitable Table, a Chicago based personal chef service of which the Obamas were clients.

The Chicagoist has some interesting facts about his culinary background here.

For an insight into Kass’ guiding philosophy about food and how that might inform his White House service, the Inevitable Table website provides this clue:

“We aim to promote a healthy lifestyle that focuses on the quality and flavor of food to encourage good eating habits. This philosophy provides consistency and balance to ensure you thoroughly enjoy your food experience. We believe that people have a stake in each other’s health. This link is what binds us together as families, communities and a nation. Nowhere are we more powerfully bound together than in the daily cultivation and preparation of food.”

(Photo Credit: Kitchen Symphony by Puck90.)

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With the average American eating as much as 16 pounds of seafood a year, it’s no wonder that whatever one’s religious preference or faith (Catholic or not), many use the Lenten season as an excuse to add more fish and shellfish to their daily diet.

Now that Fat Tuesday and Mardi Gras are behind us, here’s 18 recipes from our popular Fish on Friday Recipe of the Week Series to help you do just that whether you love shrimp, crab, salmon, tilapia, halibut, oysters, mussels, lobster, or clams!

• Baja Fish Tacos

• Steamed Seafood Dumplings

• Cornmeal Crab Puffs

• Creamy Seafood Pot Pie

• Salmon With Figs, Saba and Watercress

• Stuffies (Stuffed Clams)

• Panko Crusted Shrimp Lollipops

• Shrimp Saganaki

• Curried Crab Pizza Recipe

• Crab and Coconut Risotto with Mango

• Ginger and Cilantro Baked Tilapia

• Drago’s Style Charbroiled Oysters Recipe

• Steamed Mussels With Almonds

• Southern She-Crab Soup

• Lobster Savannah

• Miso-Marinated Sea Bass

• Seafood Lasagna

• Grilled Halibut Fajitas

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