Our guest is Florida food, travel, and lifestyle writer Carrie Hornaker, who took a trip scalloping off New Port Richey and wrote about the adventure for Flamingo magazine. Scallops are in trouble across Florida, but remain abundant enough in select locations to allow for a harvesting season.
Image: Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
Craig Pittman is the award-winning author of Oh, Florida!: How America’s Weirdest State Influences the Rest of the Country, The Scent of Scandal, Cat Tale, Manatee Insanity and The State You’re In, and co-author of Paving Paradise. Born in Pensacola, he graduated from Troy State University in Alabama, where his muckraking work for the student paper prompted an agitated dean to label him “the most destructive force on campus.” Since then he has covered a variety of newspaper beats and quite a few natural disasters, including hurricanes, wildfires and the Florida Legislature.
