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NEWS ABOUT: delicacy

delicacy stories: 7 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

 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

GLOSSIES

 Wagyu: 'the Hummer of Beef'

Esquire taste tests extravagant $130-per-pound meat

Aug 25, 08 7:41 PM CDT
(Newser) - Wagyu beef, a Japanese tradition catching on in the US, uses cows “bred so that fat corrupts the striations of every muscle,” Tom Junod writes in Esquire. After sampling some at $130 per pound, Junod ponders how Americans can be attracted to such excess. Despite America's ecological awakening,... More »

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Japan • beef • delicacy • slaughterhouse • Esquire • opinion • Wagyu beef

opinion

 Dear Lobster,
 I Hardly Knew Ye 

A conscience-clearing letter to the author's slain-in-the-name-of-succulence dinner

Jun 11, 08 12:25 PM CDT
(Newser) - Francis Lam eases his guilt about chowing down on a certain tasty crustacean by creating an unlikely enemy on his dinner plate, writing an open-ended letter to “Lobster” in Gourmet. He's not sorry for chowing down, "for your meat was like butter and nuts," but his... More »

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delicacy • seafood • food industry • lobster

 At Testicle Fest,
 Visitors Go Nuts 

Utah event showcases beer-battered Rocky Mountain Oysters

Jun 1, 08 12:09 PM CDT
(Newser) - Attendees were urged to “have a ball” this weekend at the annual Testicle Festival in southwestern Wyoming, the Salt Lake Tribune reports. The two-day event raises $30,000 for charity as it salutes cowboy traditions, offering guests the chance to munch on “Rocky Mountain Oysters”—known in... More »

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food • bulls • Utah • delicacy • festival

Japanese Fight Over Detoxed Delicacy

Fugu liver can now be safe, but traditionalists don't want it served

May 4, 08 7:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - One of Japan's prized delicacies is having an identity crisis: fugu, the pricey puffer fish that's poisonous unless prepared correctly, now has a farmed cousin that's harmless, the New York Times reports. But gourmands looking forward to eating fugu liver—the most delicious and potentially deadly part of the fish—... More »

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food • Japan • fish • poison • delicacy • ban • fugu

$600 Coffee 'Processed'
by Civets

Java-lovers' treat plucked from droppings of animals who gorge on beans

Jul 13, 07 5:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - Move over, Starbucks. Hyper coffee connoisseurs are coughing up $600 for a pound of the world's priciest coffee, a blend plucked from the droppings of a civet, a small Indonesian mammal that forages for fresh coffee beans. Fans describe the taste of kopi luwak as earthy, with a note of... More »

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Indonesia • coffee • Hong Kong • kopi luwak • delicacy • drinks • beverages • civet • chocolate

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