scooping shrimp into a bag from the seafood counter - Hleb Usovich/Getty Images Seafood spoils faster than land animals, and fresh seafood goes bad more quickly than frozen. To find out why that is, ...

The ideal way to consume seafood is to catch it, then eat it. Preferably as fast as it takes to say that sentence. Like Anthony Bourdain once said, food tastes better with sand between your toes.

Liz Provencher is a Brooklyn-based writer covering food, drink, and travel. Her work can be found in publications like Architectural Digest, Eater, Thrillist, Travel + Leisure, Wine Enthusiast, and ...