Week of January 26, 2026 - Small World Seafood Update

Hello everybody!!

What a mess...and kinda beautiful at the same time. We were due for a pretty big one. It's been a while. Now comes the long process of waiting for the stuff to melt and disappear but with cold weather sticking around and the possibility of another one this weekend, it really reminds me of growing up in Montreal..Sonw comes and doesn't leave until April. I don't think that will happen here but it does trigger some pretty visceral memories.

So does getting cooped up in the house with the fam for a few days. You know, it's been a little while since I've had something trigger a memory or feeling of the early days of Covid. But this storm did. Now, I don't want you to think that it triggered anxiety or stress or anything like that. It did not. I feel like I am past that. 

However, it did bring me back to that time in March and April of 2020 when we were trying to figure out how to function as normally as we possibly could. And thinking of the busses not running. And the empty streets. And the silence outside without a single car or Amazon truck passing through. And walking my dog and seeing absolutely nothing in motion for blocks at a time. And everyone in the house trying to find a little personal space.

It was just an eerie feeling. 

Of course, the sound of shovels scraping concrete broke the silence. And the kids grabbing whatever device they could find that could possibly maker a good sled to take to the Art Museum steps. Speaking of those steps, I know that running up those steps is such a famously important thing that happens hundreds of times a day, usually. But what those steps mean to every kid in the city when there is a good snowfall is pretty special. Not talked about much but very cool.

Anyway, I am just cooped up here so I have little bit too much time to think so I am babbling on. All the trucking companies and seafood suppliers were closed yesterday from Philadelphia to Boston so there was nothing to do. Things will start cranking up today and the machine will restart slowly. We will get things going from our end and figure out how to get everything to you this week around the snows filed up on curbs.

As for fish of the week, We will have fresh Steelhead trout fillets! This time, coming from South America. From the Patogonia region of Chile. Great stuff. Sushi grade, no hormones, no antibiotics. Looks just like salmon but a bit more orange in color. It is a cousin, in fact..So many of you all love this stuff as I do.

We will have Faroe Island salmon but only blast frozen this week. Still sushi grade and still best in class. 

Everything else should be good to go as well but we will have to seee as the machine gets going. It is easy to stop a machine. It ain't so easy to get it going right once you restart it. 

Anyway, as far as Friday goes, we'll be there. We've never missed a day and intend on continuing that winning streak. Also, this is Saturday pick up option in Queen Village and Moore Brothers in Pennsauken..

As always, I am still keeping my eyes peeled for something else coming our way. You never know..

You see how much fun we can have? I feel it too...

Littleneck clams are the shellfish of the week....Pair with Settentatre Pasta Co's organic fresh spinach linguini for cheapest meal ever!!  Not sure about oysters yet ... We have labneh and smoked fish..So many good things..

Plenty of crab meat, shrimp, etc....

I know, I know..Lots of words...

Anyway, as usual, I have to thank all of you guys for being in our lives. What an incredible community we live in...

Robert Amar

Small World Seafood

Owner