A seventh generation fisherman, Joe Orlando has been fishing out of Gloucester since 1974. He’s captain of the Padre Pio, a 65 foot dragger.
The history books are pretty clear: no cod, no Boston.
It’s hard to overstate the importance of the fishing industry to New England as a whole. The industry’s well-documented decline in recent decades due to overfishing and mismanagement has taken its toll, but 80,000 people in Massachusetts still work in the commercial fishing business.
Here’s what I know about fish: I like eating it. Baked, fried, poached, grilled – buttered or battered, with lemon.
If you leave out the butter and batter, it’s very good and good for you.
Here’s what I know about fishing: not much, except what I learned from The Perfect Storm, Sebastian Junger’s magnificent book later made [...]
As a part of preparing for this week’s show, Radio Boston’s David Boeri went out on a cod fishing trip with Gloucester fisherman, Joe Orlando, and his son, Mario. We here at Radio Boston are learning a lot about the New England fishing industry, and about the families who’ve been working and living in the [...]
This hour on Radio Boston we’re talking about local sustainable agriculture. Joining us on the air is Kathleen Merrigan, Deputy Secretary of Agriculture and former Tufts professor; Laura Tangerini of Tangerini’s Spring Street Farm; Ilene Bezahler, editor and publisher of Edible Boston and President of the Board of Directors of the Federation of Massachusetts Farmers Markets; and [...]
Is there anything more delectable than a eating a fresh peach or a ripe tomato?
With mouths watering, the Radio Boston team has been waiting to do this show for a couple of months.
The beginning of summer and farmer’s markets setting with up with the first locally grown produce of the season is surely something to [...]
Many of our listeners were disappointed when we had to cancel this show last week in favor of a DiMasi reax hour. You’ll be happy to know, we’re on track to do it this week, and we have a super-special, super-secret guest who we’re hoping will be in town from Washington long enough to appear. [...]
