With Sushi, You Can’t Always Get What You Want When you are buying seafood, you want to know you are getting exactly what you pay for. Unfortunately, that’s not always the case. Oceana, the largest international ocean conservation group, recently released a study on the mislabeling of seafood in New York. Seafood fraud is big…
Marc Towers and Neil Cooke came to the coast of Nova Scotia with a goal: catch a bluefin tuna. Clocking in at an average of 6.5 feet long and over 500 lbs, these torpedo shaped fish are respected for their size, strength and endurance, making them some of the toughest opponents even for skilled fishers….
It was one of those cold November evenings, the wind screaming and the rain falling from the sky as if God himself had pulled the plug on his bathtub. The kind of day where you just want to sit down, relax, and eat some delicious sushi from that take-out place that you have heard so…
Going on vacation with someone who doesn’t like the same foods as you can turn into a real headache. Luckily, my friend and I are great at working around our different food preferences. I love sushi, she loves Italian. These two food styles couldn’t be more different, with rich cheeses and pastas giving a whole…
A Review of Jako Japanese Restaurant in Vancouver, BC What’s the best part of a vacation? Checking out sushi restaurants, of course! Growing up in Victoria B.C., an island city off the west coast of Canada, high food prices are a normal part of life. I am currently on vacation in Vancouver B.C. with a…
I admit it, often times when I go to sushi with my family it is so delicious that I wolf it down without a pause. While sushi is amazing, so much skill and balance goes into the creation of each dish to ensure that it is both aesthetically pleasing as well as perfectly harmonized in…
I just had a great sushi dinner at Nobu in New York City. It’s supposedly impossible to get a reservation, but I called on a whim and got a table for the next night. A pleasant surprise as my sister in law was in town and they *had* to experience the best sushi in the…
10 reasons you should be eating more sushi 1. Sushi contains omega 3 fatty acids. Omega 3 fatty acids are essential fatty acids, ones that we don’t consume enough of in our modern diet. Think of sushi as a supplement, providing these much needed “good” fats, particularly when the other choices contain fats that don’t…
You may like scallop sushi (hotategai) as much as I do, but here’s a scallop that is a meal in itself and will be an undertaking to slake my sushi thirst. In my opinion, great seafood is best eaten as sushi, and this scallop is the biggest piece of sushi I’ve ever seen. Forget the…
And we have a new winner! As is usual, on the first auction for the new year at the Tsukiji fish market, a new record was set for the most expensive tuna sold. Selling for $736,000 (56.49 million Yen), the 593 pound (269 kilogram) bluefin tuna came out around $1,238 per pound. That price likely…