Cheap reads about the coast
North Carolina Sea Grant, a
research, education and extension
program, offers uncommon books
for everyone on your gift list. To
order, write North Carolina Sea
Grant, Box 8605, N. C. State
University, Raleigh, NC 27695; call
919/515-2454.
For Cooks
No-Salt Seafood: All the Flavor
Without the Salt
No-Salt Seafood features more than
50 mouth-watering ways to cook
fish and shellfish seasoned with
herbs, spices, citrus fruits and wine.
This cookbook is especially helpful
to those seeking to reduce their salt
intake for health reasons. In most of
the recipes the seafood is broiled,
baked or grilled — healthy cooking
methods. Recipes include Lime
Marinated Snapper with Cilantro
Butter, Grilled Fish Kabobs,
Indonesian Grilled Shrimp, Baked
Oysters, Scallops with Mushrooms
and Clams Florentine. The cost is
$3.50. Ask for UNC-SG-89-07.
For Children
Coastal Capers: A Marine
Education Primer
Coastal Capers provides activities
that elementary grade teachers, 4-H
and Scout leaders and parents can
use to introduce and explain the
marine environment. The activities
sharpen students' skills in science,
math, language arts, social studies
and art. Children can also make fish
prints, search for buried treasure,
play the sand dollar game and
understand food web connections.
The book is full of fun art. The cost
is $3.50. Ask for UNC-SG-84-05.
For Saltwater Anglers
Recipes with a New Catch
This is for fishermen who toss
aside one fish in favor of another.
Recipes with a New Catch boasts 40
pages of delicious recipes for 16
species of non-traditional fish such
as sharks, triggerfish, bluefish,
amberjack, crevalle jack, sea robin,
rays and more. If you can catch it,
this book will tell you how to cook
it. The cost is $2. Ask for UNC-SG
86-06. .
For Naturalists
A Guide to Ocean Dune Plants
Common to North Carolina
The ocean dime guide boasts clear
illustrations that identify most types
of trees, ocean dune plants, herbs,
grasses, vines and shrubs. The glos
sary of terms is also illustrated,
showing various leaf arrangements,
seed pods, berries, spikes and flow
ers. This guide can teach any nature
lover the difference between poison
ivy and the beach pea. The cost is
$4.50. Ask for UNC-SG-87-01.
For Birdwatchers
Atlas of Colonial Waterbirds of
North Carolina Estuaries
Brown pelicans, great egrets, little
blue herons and the glossy ibis are
some of the 25 species of waterbirds
that call North Carolina home.
Using the atlas, bird watchers can
pinpoint where these magnificent
birds are most likely to nest along
the coast, what types of food they'll
be eating and how to identify them.
Also included are maps locating the
nesting sites recorded in 1993 and
pictures of each species. The cost is
$5. Ask for UNC-SG-95-02.
For Gardeners
Seacoast Plants of the Carolinas:
For Conservation and Beautifi
cation
For those who wish to discover
the ins and outs of oceanside planti
ng, this is the book with all the
answers. Seacoast Plants of the
Carolinas introduces the uninitiated
to gardening around harsh salt
spray, shifting sands and whipping
winds. With delicate line drawings
and demonstrative pictures, the
book explains everything from dune
protection to beach landscaping to
planting, mulching and maintaining
beautiful ground coverings, shrubs
and perennials. The cost is $4.50.
Ask for UNC-SG-73-06.
For Everyone
Coastwatch
Want to know the rich history of
our coast's most beautiful cities? Get
delicious recipes from North
Carolina's seafOOCt“£xperts? Stay
abreast of coastal regulations and
water quality issues? Learn the
secrets of the black bear, the logger
head turtle or the dolphin? You can
get it all — and more — for only $15
a year with Coastwatch, North
Carolina Sea Grant's award-winning
magazine about the glorious
Carolina coast. Professional photog
raphy, original art and dazzling cov
ers add to the enjoyment of this
publication which is produced bi
monthly. The cost is $15 for one
year, $28 for two years and $42 for
three years. Ask for Coastwatch.
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