Recently, at Carter's nine month appointment, we got the "okay" to introduce him to fish -- not shellfish, which can be highly allergenic, but fish with fins.

If you're lucky, you have a friend who knows all the hot restaurants in town -- and also knows you're allergic to shellfish and like Southern food.

One hopes that the regulations may at least prevent some food poisonings caused by the improper handling of fish and shellfish.

Consequently, fish and shellfish can accumulate extremely high levels of toxins and chemical residues in their flesh due to "bio-accumulation".

In either case having pinned the name of the dishes on a kind of seafood, we now must turn to how the shellfish got its name.