Picture this. You're holding a knife over a fish that could kill thirty people if you make one wrong cut.Your hands are ...

Think about walking into a restaurant and ordering a meal where just one microscopic mistake in preparation could put you six ...

The battle of extreme Japanese cuisine hit a snag Thursday when a Japanese restaurant in Lincoln Park that had for nearly a month been serving a variety of fugu–a blowfish that if not properly ...

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The Japanese delicacy fugu, or blowfish, is so poisonous that the smallest mistake in its preparation could be fatal. But Tokyo's city government is planning to ease restrictions that allow only ...

The decades-long mandatory rule of acquiring a licence to prepare the poisonous Fugu or Blowfish may soon be a thing of the past abroad. Adds food expert Rashmi Uday Singh, “I’ve eaten Fugu in Los ...

While on assignment for the Tribune I’ve gotten to eat meals most people can’t (or won’t) ever get to experience. Some have been titillating–sushi served atop a naked model. Others have been ...

The poisonous Japanese pufferfish, known as fugu to gourmets who risk their lives eating it, has yielded valuable new genetic information in the quest for deeper knowledge of the basics of human ...

The Japanese delicacy fugu, or blowfish, is so poisonous that the smallest mistake in its preparation could be fatal. But Tokyo's city government is planning to ease restrictions that allow only ...

The Japanese delicacy fugu, or blowfish, is so poisonous that the smallest mistake in its preparation could be fatal. But Tokyo's city government is planning to ease restrictions that allow only ...