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Hook, Line & Dinner
Hook, Line and Dinner

Hook, Line & Dinner

—Ben Sargent is a lifelong seafood lover who once ran a successful underground lobster roll business out of his basement apartment in Brooklyn, N.Y. Now, Sargent takes his knowledge and passion for seafood on the road as he searches for the best regional seafood across the United States, showcasing the local joints where it is served. Among the stops on his journey, Sargent checks out blue crab in Charleston, S.C., sardines and sea urchin in San Diego and sturgeon in Oregon. Sargent believes the restaurants he visits -- including crab shacks and chowder houses -- are hangouts for eccentrics, where locals swap stories and fishermen share their tales from the sea.
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Season 18 of 8 Episodes

  • Ben joins the local debate on whether farm raised or wild caught crawfish are better; Ben goes to Café des Amis for some Zydeco music and Cajun catfish with crawfish au gratin sauce.

  • Ben travels back in time from cosmopolitan Miami to rustic Everglades City.

  • Ben discovers the foundations for Charleston's current culinary renaissance is the region's rustic lowcountry cuisine.

  • Ben explores New Orleans' 400-year-old mishmash of culinary traditions with gusto.

  • Ben navigates the Columbia River with the Yakama Nation of Native Americans during their annual sturgeon catch; Ben pan-sears ling cod at Thistle in McMinnville.

  • Ben's seafood pilgrimage in San Francisco.

  • A sustainable seafood program in Santa Barbara shifts the community's consumption to more viable sources.

  • Ben lends local fisherman a hand during the annual sardine run; diving for sea urchins and spiny lobster; surfing with the owner of Bull Taco.
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Ben Sargent is a lifelong seafood lover who once ran a successful underground lobster roll business out of his basement apartment in Brooklyn, N.Y. Now, Sargent takes his knowledge and passion for seafood on the road as he searches for the best regional seafood across the United States, showcasing the local joints where it is served. Among the stops on his journey, Sargent checks out blue crab in Charleston, S.C., sardines and sea urchin in San Diego and sturgeon in Oregon. Sargent believes the restaurants he visits -- including crab shacks and chowder houses -- are hangouts for eccentrics, where locals swap stories and fishermen share their tales from the sea.

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