Prawn of time

The spot prawn season is kicking off in style with a full day’s celebration planned for May 9. Hard to believe but
it wasn’t that long ago most Vancouverites had never even seen these plump, sweet crustaceans as they were
unceremoniously exported live, mainly to Japan.

In a recent conversation, chef Robert Clark reminded me that when he started out at C Restaurant it was almost impossible
to buy local seafood other than salmon. The chef says even though there were some 62 commercially harvested species
in B.C., he was able to buy only about…read more