They are huge, these Santa Barbara spot prawns. And they are coddled all the way to the table. They are caught in traps at depths up to 1,600 feet, carefully brought aboard small shrimp boats and kept ...

Almost offhandedly, Tommy Pearson points across the ocean toward the horizon: “Look at all those birds, must be some dolphins coming.” Sure enough, a couple of minutes later we’re in the midst of a ...

Sweet like lobster. Soft orange color. About the size of your palm. And if you hold live spot prawns pulled from the waters off La Jolla Canyon in your hand, they wait until you drop your freak-out ...

"I caught those prawns," fisherman Steve Johansen proudly tells a table of diners at in Vancouver, B.C. "Nice catch," responds one of the diners. This spring, she and many like her are feasting on ...

“Honestly, it’s all about the vitality of the spot prawns. We’re fortunate enough to be able to get them live six days a week, which is very unique to have wild, not farmed, spot prawns. We’re very ...

Chef/host Joel Gamoran makes “homemade memories” with his celebrity friends on Homemade Live! In “Off the Eaten Path,” Gamoran prepares the dish he calls one of the best meals he ever ate — salt ...

The Chronicle Food staff informally tasted 11 varieties of shrimp, the number that we found in markets last week. The shopping process underscored the lesson that shrimp are wild, seasonal food, and ...

You can use coarse or fine salt to roast the prawns; fine salt will form a firmer, more compact crust that will be harder to crack after roasting. 1. Heat the oven to 400 degrees and place a rack on ...

In Vancouver B.C., spot prawn season is celebrated the way Copper River Salmon is here: splashy opening events, special menus, and the buzz of excitement as a limited-time local delicacy returns again ...

In the center of your plate will be a spot prawn’s head and thorax, set up like a pillar. Its white-flecked legs will stretch and its sideways mouth will snap like a camera shutter. Surrounding this ...

The Puget Sound and Hood Canal spot shrimp fishing season begins this Saturday (May 6), and anglers can look forward to another exciting season. State Fish and Wildlife recently conducted abundance ...