{"id":4219,"date":"2023-11-13T08:37:20","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T13:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magazine.alumni.ncsu.edu\/?p=4219"},"modified":"2023-11-13T08:37:20","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T13:37:20","slug":"ship-to-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magazine.ncsu.edu\/2023\/ship-to-table\/","title":{"rendered":"Ship to Table"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n
When the two alums who founded Locals Seafood decided to create heat-and-eat meals featuring seafood caught in North Carolina, they got a little help from some graduate students in the Department of Food, Bioprocessing and Nutrition Sciences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The students in Clint Stevenson\u2019s food safety class helped the company, founded by Ryan Speckman \u201902 and Lin Peterson \u201903, put together an FDA-required safety plan known as HACCP (Hazard and Critical Control Points). In the past, the class had helped other enterprises solve food safety issues, but this was first time his students had worked with seafood, which can be challenging. \u201cIt\u2019s not like making cupcakes,\u201d says Stevenson, an associate professor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Speckman and Lin founded the company in 2010. Most of the seafood caught off the N.C. coast is shipped to northern hubs like Philadelphia, Pa. and New York, N.Y., so the duo decided to start bringing more to the Triangle and, along the way, introduced restaurant chefs to local species like black drum and sheepshead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n