Friday night fish fries are a popular tradition in Milwaukee, but is this tradition under threat because the fish are no longer as abundant as they once were? Faced with this grim outlook for fish fry lovers, Jonathan Bales and Leon Todd have co-founded the Urban Aquaculture Center (UAC) which they believe gives Milwaukee the [...]
Perch Backers Toast
We are God’s chosen fish fry people.
And if we drink a beer with that fried perch or cod, all is right with the world on a Friday night in Wisconsin.
A juicy history of Wisconsin’s beloved fish fry tradition presented this week at the Milwaukee County Historical Society began with that pithy point and explored all [...]
Fish Lecture
Leon Todd and Jonathan Bales will present a lecture on “The History of the the Wisconsin Friday Night Fish Fry and the Disappearing Fish” on Wednesday, May 21 (noon) at the Milwaukee County Historical Society Museum located at 910 Old World Third.
Leon Todd and Jonathan Bales are co-founders of the Urban Aquaculture Center. Their presentation [...]
Leon Todd
Leon graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) School of Education-Cultural Foundation with a MS in 1972. He received an MBA from the UWM School of Business Administration in 1969 and also acquired a BA in Latin & Greek Classic Studies at Northwestern Lutheran College in 1965. After serving 5 years as Director of Sales [...]