Aimee Levitt is a freelance writer in Chicago. There’s an exciting new local fish on Chicago restaurant menus. It’s called copi, and you should try it today! Oh, wait, no. It’s just Asian carp, the ...

EAST PEORIA — Abundant, local, cheap and a great source of protein and other essential nutrients, carp have only one problem: Americans have traditionally shied away from eating it, until now. On ...

URBANA — Chef Soohwa Yu has been serving carp at University of Illinois dining halls for a few years. Now, the rest of the state is catching up. The Illinois Department of Natural Resources is ...

Delicacies from Hung Yen like hammock-fried carp and nem thun thut take up to 10 hours to prepare and impress diners with ...