Fry them, boil them, grill them, chop them into salads. Everybody loves shrimp — tasty, succulent and straight from the Arizona desert. Uh, that's right, some of the best-tasting shrimp you can buy, ...

For Gary Wood the phrase, "the road less traveled" really is a way of life. Tucked away off Old Highway 80, just outside Gila Bend, is Arizona's Desert Sweet Shrimp farm. That's right, a shrimp farm ...

Shrimp tacos, sizzling shrimp fajitas and tangy shrimp ceviche are as much a part of our local fabric as brilliant sunsets, margaritas on the rocks, and Paul Goldschmidt home runs. But we typically ...

When it rains in Iran’s Dasht-e Lut desert, the ground comes alive with tiny, upside-down crustaceans. By Sabrina Imbler In springtime, when the rain gathers into pools in Iran’s Dasht-e Lut Desert, ...

Blue Oasis Pure Shrimp is about to make history by providing restaurants on the Las Vegas strip with shrimp grown on land just 30 miles outside of the desert-locked city. Advocates for the health of ...

Wang Changgui, a farmer from Ordos, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, began raising whiteleg shrimp, brought over from Ecuador six years ago — but the task was rough going at the outset. In the ...

But here’s a bit of good news: There’s a growing movement to raise shrimp using a method that avoids a dangerous cocktail of pesticides, antibiotics, bad bacteria, and all the other negative ...

PHOENIX -- When Gary Wood opened a shrimp farm in the desert nine years ago, people told him it could not work. Today, Wood has partly proved his early critics wrong. Consumers have touted the ...

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Do you remember the last time you enjoyed a plate of shrimp scampi or shrimp tacos? There’s a good chance one of those shrimp’s relatives paid a visit to the University of Arizona campus before it ...