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NEWS ABOUT: sushi

sushi stories: 18 news summaries

(Newser) - You might suspect a sushi restaurant that doesn’t specify what sort of tuna you’re eating of trying to pawn off an inferior species. Not so. Researchers using novel DNA barcoding technology found that though nearly a third of tuna sold in 31 US restaurants was the prized—and... More »

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endangered species • FDA • restaurant • delicacy • seafood • dining • sushi • Food and Drug Administration • overfishing • bluefin tuna • truth in advertising • DNA barcoding

 Piven: Stop 
 Making Fun 
 of Me! 

Play mocking mercury poisoning must stop defaming him, comedian insists

Sep 15, 09 9:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - Jeremy Piven has had it up to here with people mocking his sushi poisoning. The comedian slapped the Public Theater with a cease-and-desist letter over The Piven Monologues, a show that explores his mercury poisoning fiasco. Piven’s attorney clarifies, “We didn't say you cannot do the... More »

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sushi • mercury poisoning • Jeremy Piven

 Letterman 
 Goes Easy On 
 Poisoned Piven 

Actor says he could have had heart attack

Sep 2, 09 7:42 AM CDT
(Newser) - Jeremy Piven and his terrible case of sushi-related mercury poisoning got off easy during last night's Late Show appearance. David Letterman skipped questions prepared by the National Fisheries Institute—such as "why is it that people in Japan eat far more fish than you, yet don't complain about mercury... More »

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entertainment • Broadway • late night talk show • David Letterman • sushi • mercury poisoning • Jeremy Piven • Speed the Plow

(Newser) - Jeremy Piven was on the level when he blamed mercury poisoning for his decision to bail on a Broadway production of Speed-the-Plow last December, an arbitrator has ruled. "While we respect the decision, we strongly disagree with it," the producers of the David Mamet play said in a... More »

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entertainment • theater • Broadway • mercury • sushi • mercury poisoning • David Mamet • Jeremy Piven • Speed-the-Plow

De Niro at Center of Celeb Food Fight

Actor's restaurant chain causes uproar with use of endangered tuna

Jun 5, 09 2:26 PM CDT
(Newser) - Celebrities including Sienna Miller, Charlize Theron, and Sting are joining the food fight against famed restaurant Nobu, the New York Post reports. Activists are demanding the Japanese eatery, co-owned by Robert De Niro, remove endangered bluefin tuna from its pricey menu so they can “dine with a clear conscience.... More »

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entertainment • Robert De Niro • celebrity • Nobu • sushi • Sienna Miller • Nobuyuki Matsuhisa • bluefin tuna • Woody Harrelson

(Newser) - Japanese scientists are racing to keep bluefin tuna from dying out by inducing another fish to give birth to them, GlobalPost reports. Overfishing has already decimated bluefin and convinced many diners, supermarket and sushi chains to avoid the fish. Now Japan is paying a Tokyo University team to replenish bluefin... More »

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endangered species • Japan • sushi • bluefin tuna

 Blowfish Testicles Poison 
 7 Diners in Japan

Chef served dangerous dish without license, cops say

Jan 27, 09 4:39 PM CST
(AP) - World travelers, take note. Blowfish testicles prepared by an unauthorized chef have sickened seven diners in northern Japan, three of whom remain hospitalized. The owner of the Tsuruoka restaurant had no license to serve blowfish and was being questioned on suspicion of professional negligence. Blowfish poison, called tetrodotoxin, is nearly... More »

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food poisoning • Japan • restaurant • delicacy • sushi • hospitalization • fugu • blowfish • testicles

 Mercury Illness Was Real: Piven

Star defends decision to leave Broadway production

Jan 12, 09 2:29 PM CST
(Newser) - Jeremy Piven has taken a lot of flak since leaving the Broadway production of Speed-the-Plow due to unhealthy amounts of mercury in his body—including anonymous sources who said medical reasons were a cover for the fact that he was fired—but the condition was real, the actor tells People.... More »

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theater • Broadway • mercury • sushi • mercury poisoning • David Mamet • Jeremy Piven • Speed-the-Plow

opinion

 Preggo? It's OK 
 to Have a Little Vino 

Gourmet foods are safer than most assume

Oct 18, 08 2:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - Pregnant gourmands can stop panicking about sipping on the occasional—heck, daily—glass of wine, writes Lesley Porcelli in Gourmet. “The health people have not been talking to the food people,” and many warned-against drinks and dishes are fine in moderation. Porcelli’s research freed her to enjoy... More »

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pregnancy • coffee • wine • diet • caffeine • cheese • healthy eating • sushi

(Newser) - American women are afflicted by high Mercury levels depending on where they live and how much they earn, a new study says. Northeasterners are worst off, with a 20% chance of high mercury, 10 points higher than the national rate. Midwesterners eat less seafood and had lower levels overall, the... More »

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Northeast • Midwest • fish • mercury • sushi • fetal health

NY Sushi Sleuths Uncover Fishy Tricks

Simple DNA test reveals fish sellers' bait-and-switch

Aug 22, 08 3:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - Two New York City high school students used DNA testing to uncover a bait-and-switch scam in local restaurants and fish markets, the New York Times reports. Fish being sold as prized white tuna turned out to be the much more common—and cheaper—Mozambique tilapia, while red snapper proved to... More »

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genetic testing • DNA • fish • restaurant • genetic code • DNA database • sushi

Glossies

 Bluefin Tuna Tricked
 Into Spawning

Australian aims to overcome fish shortage by simulating breeding grounds

Aug 17, 08 7:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - A seafood entrepreneur thinks he can solve the world's bluefin tuna shortage by making the fish feel frisky, Time reports. German ex-pat Hagen Stehr, the baron of a $230-million Australian seafood empire, is simulating the tuna's breeding grounds in a hatchery—a "fishy virtual reality" with 14 hours of... More »

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endangered species • environmentalism • tuna • fishing • sushi • food industry • overfishing

Glossies

 Can Fish-Hungry
 Japan Go
 Sustainable? 

Slowly, world's sushi capital seeing more eco-friendly seafood in supermarkets

Jun 26, 08 7:16 AM CDT
(Newser) - Japan loves its fish: The island nation consumes an average of 147 pounds per person a year, compared to America’s 17. So, Samuel Fromartz wonders in Gourmet, how can Japanese fisheries continue to support supermarket fish counters as large as an entire US meat section? The answer, slowly gaining... More »

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Japan • tuna • fish • Tokyo • sushi • sustainability • fishery • Marine Stewardship Council

 Pizza Police Pursue Posers 

Deep-dish, go home: Italian law governs
aims to enforce Neapolitan authenticity

Mar 12, 08 3:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - Think that pineapple-and ham-concoction is a pizza? Not according to Italian law, Julie Reno writes in the Smart Set. Only hand-kneaded dough, rolled to no more than 14 inches in diameter, topped with San Marzano plum tomatoes and baked in a brick wood-fired oven qualifies. La Pizza Polizia crown such... More »

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food • Italy • Naples • pizza • authenticity • sushi • neapolitan pizza • Gianni Alemanno

Japan Sends Out Sushi Squad

Tokyo to certify 'authentic' restaurants around the world

Jan 30, 08 11:50 AM CST
(Newser) - Japan, worried that the globalization of sushi is embarrassing its national cuisine—think California rolls—is about to start certifying which of the estimated 25,000 Japanese restaurants around the world are authentic. Experts based in major cities, including London, Paris, and Los Angeles, will give eateries that pass muster... More »

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Japan • restaurant • sushi • Japanese food • California rolls

'Sushi Capital' Japan Isn't Sweating Tuna Scare

Sushi capital continues to eat up

Jan 27, 08 5:35 AM CST
(Newser) - New Yorkers may be in the throes of a sushi scare after the Times reported on the dangerous mercury levels in tuna, but the Japanese aren't batting an eyelid. One official's biggest concern was that the controversy would ignite "groundless rumors" about a healthy food, AP reports. "We're... More »

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health • Japan • tuna • fish • mercury • sushi

High Mercury Levels Found
in Tuna Sushi

FDA reconsidering warnings on
seafood mercury

Jan 23, 08 7:50 AM CST
(Newser) - A quarter of tuna sushi sampled in New York contained mercury levels so high that the FDA could take legal action to ban the fish from the market, reports the New York Times.  Although the sushi was collected in New York City, experts believe samples elsewhere would be similar.... More »

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FDA • tuna • mercury • sushi • mercury poisoning

Tuna Shortage Triggers
Sushi Crisis

Japanese chefs resort to deer and even
horse meat

Jun 25, 07 4:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - Plummeting supplies of tuna have become a recipe for disaster in Japan, where sushi lovers eat 60,000 tons of the fish a year. Desperate chefs are experimenting with increasingly bizarre sushi substitutes, including deer and even horse, the New York Times reports. But sushi without tuna in Japan is... More »

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food • Japan • tuna • fish • horse • deer • sushi

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