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It also shines in fish stews and soups of all kinds, from cacciucco to tom kha gai to cioppino or caldeirada.

This recipe is faster, cleaner and simpler than other seafood stews, bouillabaisse, or cioppino, and by that I mean you will not have to deal with heads, tails, scales, bones or anything repulsive to make the flavorful, deeply-hued base, which is a massive plus for this home cook.

The crabs were lifted off the boat and weighed: 855 pounds of fresh crab meat to be transformed into sauteed crab cakes, a Louie salad or thrown into some cioppino.

My fellow Slatesters have also noticed their favorite products disappearing from shelves: lemon pepper seasoning, frozen cioppino seafood stew, frozen yogurt, horseradish potato chips, and more.

"You've a whole stew of data coming out this week. You don't know if the cioppino is going to be hot, mild or somewhere in between, which is why you have the market hanging around this unchanged level," said Pavlik.