Local chefs use different cooking techniques for preparing fresh shad but all agree: Less is more. “Keep it super simple because the fish is super delicious,” says Tyler Anderson, chef at the Copper ...

For six to eight weeks in spring, hundreds of thousands of shad swim up the Connecticut River to spawn. Literally overnight, shad appears in fish markets, restaurants and grocery stores. Shad bakes, ...

ESSEX >> Fifty-eight years ago, the Rotary Club of Essex introduced a New England shoreline tradition — the town’s shad bake. The event returns June 4 to the Connecticut River Museum. “We are once ...