From CBC News North:
Pink Salmon in the Arctic Ocean are known to run up the Mackenzie
River to spawn as far away as Arctic Red River 175 miles inland but biologists have discovered a few specimens as far south as Fort Good
Hope, another 200 miles inland. That's the equivalent of Gulf of
Mexico fish going up the Mississippi and showing up in Memphis Tenn.
The issue I think is the salinity of water that
the fish can tolerate. I don't know what the salt
gradient is in the Mackenzie, but I'm pretty sure
that it gets pretty low pretty quick in the
Mississippi. Also, with the warmer waters down
there, the density of competing endemic species
will be much higher, and the physiological effects
of the different salinity will be faster, so the
consequences of adventuresomeness will be more dire.
Also in the news, Lake trout have been found in the brackish waters
of the Husky Lakes near Tuktoyaktuk and the arctic Ocean. Said the biologists
...
The Inuit people there who have done a lot of fishing there forever
just chuckled and said, "They've always been here but you never
asked."
That's a good way of putting it.
Way up north, little tiny Inuvik is about to get a cool ethnic and
fusion restaurant. The two operators are calling it JamPak and they
will be serving both Jamaican and Pakistani dishes as well as
Indian-Canadian fusion creations. Just imagine: curried seal poutine
and beluga whale kababs! It's going to be operate just one day a
week out of the premises of an established place where the staff
want to cut back on their hours.
I was surprised that this wasn't an April Fool joke;
an interesting endeavor and more power to them.
On the home front, no sooner did I defend leeks here as an
affordable allium worthy of consideration than the price jumped up. I
can no longer buy a bunch of three long fat ones for $3.99 but I
must pay $4.99 for three skinny little short ones. So they're off
the menu for now.
Are leeks a mainstream enough product to sustain
a year-round market? This may be a seasonal issue.
Re: Fireball Cinnamon Whisky, It turns out a small 200 ml bottle is
in fact about 150 ml too much! It's horrible as a straight shot no
matter what the younger generation claims and 1/4 oz is just right
in a very small handful of whisky cocktails. And it turns out that
Sazarac's Fireball is exactly the same stuff as Seagram's "Dr.
Your bad, I think. You should have known. Though
I admit to having tried a shot of it once at a
bar in Westminster, MD with Dale and Gail, many
years ago; my excuse is that I try many poisons
once.
Aloysius Percival McGillicuddy's Cinnamon Schnapps". If I had known
that ahead of time I would not have bought any at all! (Aloysius McGillicuddy, the putative inventor of the liqueur, is of course a
fictional character dreamt up by the Seagram's marketing dept.)
I wonder why the booze industry relies so
heavily on fictional characters - an early
example being Dom Perignon (okay, someone
by that name did exist, but most of his
accomplishments were fictional) and continuing
to the recent odious Tony Sinclair and The
Most Interesting Man in the World.
Abbott Road Cocktail
categories: booze, New York
servings: 1
2 oz Tommyrotter American gin
1/2 oz Concord grape shrub
1/4 oz Lockhouse Ibisco bitter
1/4 oz Honey syrup (2 to 1 honey to water)
h - Garnish
Apple skin twist
Green apple foam
Add all of the ingredients to a mixing glass
with ice and stir until cold.
Double-strain over a large ice cube into a
rocks glass, and garnish with an apple skin
twist and green apple foam.
Jeff Yannuzzi, Toutant, Buffalo NY via liquor.com
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