Doug DuCap

Doug DuCap is the author of the Knack Fish & Seafood Cookbook: Delicious Recipes For All Seasons (with coauthor Linda Beaulieu and photographer Christopher Shane).

His recipe for Mini Falafel Dogs appears in One Big Table: A Portrait of American Cooking (2010, Simon & Schuster), Molly O’Neill’s critically acclaimed book which has been praised by Thomas Keller and Alice Waters, among others.

An About.Com Fish and Seafood Cooking expert, his culinary articles also appear on TheSpruce.Com, a popular IAC/InterActiveCorp lifestyle website, as well as on Lifehacker.

Doug is the Grand Prize Winner of the Taste of the South Recipe Competition which was judged by Matt and Ted Lee, the James Beard Award winning authors of The Lee Bros. Southern Cookbook: Stories and Recipes for Southerners and Would-be Southerners.

His Moroccan Charbroiled Lamb & Fennel Stew With 7 Seed Couscous was a Semi-Finalist at the 2008 Redwood Creek Campfire Classic Recipe Competition which was held at the Food and Wine Festival at National Harbor.

Several of his original recipes for gourmet Vidalia onion rings were featured in the Rings of Tradition Brochure of the Vidalia Onion Committee. (Restaurateur and chef Spike Mendelsohn of Top Chef fame was also a contributor.)

Featuring hundreds of his original general interest recipes and food writing, Doug's personal cooking blog is at http://www.huggingthecoast.com .

Former Co-Editor of The Zuzu’s Petals Literary Resource, which was critically acclaimed by Library Journal as well as the online editions of the Atlantic Monthly, Booklist, the Encyclopedia Britannica, and USA Today. The ZPLR was also named one of the 30 Best Websites of 1997 by Entertainment Weekly.