Economic Research: Dinner Recipes

Thursday 20 December 2012

Dinner Recipes

Ben Sargent (also known as the Brooklyn Chowder Surfer) is a seafood lover, chef, restaurateur and artist. As the host of Cooking Channel’s Hook, Line & Dinner, Ben takes viewers on a coastal road trip uncovering the secrets and stories of expert fishermen, sharing in their seafood specialties and highlighting the awe-inspiring journey from sea to table. Ben exploded onto the New York food and media scene in 2010, when he launched the buzzed-about Underground Lobster Pound, a covert operation based out of his Brooklyn apartment where he supplied demanding customers with his famous lobster rolls. The South Boston lobster-dealing thug character he developed was known as “Doktor Klaw” or “The Lobster Pusha Man.” At his peak, Ben sold upwards of 150 lobster rolls in one night. Growing up in Cambridge, Mass., Ben’s seafood obsession was evident from an early age. He insisted upon eating shrimp for breakfast for a year straight at age four despite his mother’s disapproval. While in a prestigious Boston preschool, Ben was cited for eating live minnows on a class trip. Throughout his childhood, he spent weekends in New England where he enjoyed fishing, crabbing, learning about sea life and developing his love for seafood and surfing. His first real job was scooping ice cream on Cape Cod, where he watched the skilled fishmongers next door with envious eyes.