Week of January 5, 2026 - Small World Seafood Update

Hello everybody!!

Well, the holidays are over. It is always such a mad dash tumbling toward the end of the year for us. For you, too. We all can feel the manic energy around us. And then the clock strikes twelve and a new year begins. Quietly. Very quietly. And that's nice...

January doesn't have a particular vibe if you think about it. Except that it forces us to reset ourselves. Lots of people do the dry thing. Or restart the gym thing. I get that. Setting the tone for a new year can be quite important. Feeling like you've accomplished something by the end of the first month can make you feel like you've added a lot of checks to the plus column.

It also resets the finish line. You can evaluate what you've managed to improve over the past year, collect the wins and set new goals. That is something that really appeals to me. 

We had a great year in 2025. We started out with the vision of bringing a lot of items in that you wouldn't normally see in markets or restaurants. We had fun with mackerels, herrings, bluefish, hamachi loins and kamas, head on shrimp, rock shrimp, Chilean seabass and supe frozen otoro and chutoro. And you had fun with that too!! Hahaha...

This year, my goal is to create more videos and content that help you really refine some of the fundamentals of preparing and cooking fish and seafood. A seafood 101 series if you will. Some of my videos have been highly viewed and speaking to so many of you week in and week out, I know that you want more of that. We're on it.

And secondly, inspired by our new stop on every other Saturday to Moore Brothers Wines in Pennsauken, I would like to forge more synergies with businesses that share a similar purpose to us. Namely, to bring you the very best of something that enhances the quality of your life. Great fish and seafood do. Great wines do. But so do great fitness gyms and workout studios. Or services like nutrition and dietary or longevity coaches. 

I believe that many great people are doing many great things but we are all running in parallel. Time to merge tracks together and start seeing how each specialized lane is really part of a grander picture. I am not sure what that picture is yet but I definitely feel like I would like to see it. So, if this speaks to any of you already in a lane, reach out to me. Let's talk. Let's see what we can create in 2026 that didn't exist in 2025. 

As for fish for the week, not quite sure what is coming down the pike. I certainly know that butterflied Rainbow trout from Idaho is back. I know that we have a nice shot of smoked lamb merguez sausage from El Camino. I know that we will have Faroe Island salmon and Hokkaido scallops. And a lot more stuff, too...

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