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 ...

George Washington shad here? Indeed! Not only is this migrating Atlantic herring credited with saving the troops at Valley Forge from starvation, G.W.'s commercial shad catch in 1771 totaled nearly ...

The annual migration of shad to rivers in the East is reaching its peak, which means that one of spring's delicacies, shad roe, is abundant. These inexhaustible fish migrate at this time of year into ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. 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. We talked ...

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 ...

I've never forgotten my first shad fishing adventure, even though it took place nearly 40 years ago. I remember that I had no clue what I was doing and I didn't come close to catching a fish. But as a ...

MILFORD – Like aliens from some foreign port, American shad have invaded the Delaware River. Each year hundreds of thousands of shad averaging about 4 pounds each migrate up the 330-mile river that ...

Ah, the harbingers of spring: the delicate tracery of dogwood, forsythia and redbud; the lilting voices of Baltimore orioles, cardinals and robins; the rain that pelts against the windowpane. But 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 ...

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 ...