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Low Calorie Sushi Options

Sushi is a godsend for anyone trying to keep within calorie budgets and may be tired of eating boring, unsatisfying foods. While processed foods tend to sacrifice flavor in their low-calorie versions,...

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Changes in California Retail Food Code impact sushi chefs

In order to provide a more sanitary environment, California has passed new legislation to require that all culinary workers wear gloves while handling food. Among the most vocal critics of the law are...

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Finfish study warns of decreasing seafood supply

Your sushi is still in danger. A Finfish study, published by the EU Fish Processors and Traders Association in December of 2013 has the goal of providing the information needed to allow for a...

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The global seafood trade is at a record breaking high

The United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization Sub-Committee on Fish Trade will be meeting in Norway next week, and preliminary data released shows that exports are at an all time high. 2013 is...

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Sushi on a single grain of rice

How many pieces of sushi can you eat? 10? 20? 100? If you find yourself struggling to get into the triple digits when you go to an all you can eat sushi special, read on. Hironori Ikeno, a sushi chef...

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Seaweed Salad – My Favorite Quick Lunch

For a quick snack, nothing beats a quick and easy meal of seaweed salad, AKA “chukka sarada” (right now from Beyond Sushi, off Union Square Park). Filling, healthful, and it offers ample opportunity to...

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Sushi Mislabeling – A new bill proposes criminal sanctions

If you saw our previous article on sushi restaurants, grocery stores and venues mislabeling their seafood, you know that it is a rampant problem in the sushi industry. How bad is it? In restaurants...

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Spam Sushi? Yes, an upscale NY sushi restaurant is using spam in their sushi...

I’m from the west coast of Canada in an area where hipsters abound, and the idea of an upscale sushi restaurant in New York called Sushi Ko serving up SPAM got my hipster sense tingling. Surely, an...

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Kaimin Katsugyo – Acupuncture Fish For Better Sushi

Sushi chefs will go to any lengths in order to serve up the freshest, tastiest seafood they can. This is no small challenge for chefs far from the ocean, who are often frustrated by the rapid decline...

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Unagi off the menu for environmentally conscious sushi lovers

Unagi, or freshwater eel, is too delicious for its own good. Freshwater eel, which is traditionally known to bring strength and vitality to those who consume its meat, is in dire need of its own...

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FDA and EPA update on seafood consumption

Sushi is a healthy food which offers great nutritional benefits. However, the FDA has in the past warned about consumption of large, predatory fish which have a higher level of mercury and other...

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Sushi lovers may rejoice as juvenile bluefin tuna harvest is halved

Bluefin tuna is highly prized, fetching prices in the tens of thousands of dollars for a single fish in famed yearly Japanese auctions. One such bluefin tuna sold for an incredible 1.76 million in...

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The Tsukiji Fish Market is Moving

The Tsukiji fish market is the largest and most extravagant in the world. Located in Tokyo, Japan, this bustling market supplies the world with the highest quality product via overnight flights. At a...

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Is bigeye tuna feeling the same overfishing pressure as bluefin?

If you were skeptical with the International Seafood Sustainability Foundation’s (ISSF) status of healthy for Pacific bigeye tuna, you will, unfortunately, feel vindicated at the recent downgrading of...

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10 Things You Didn’t Know About Sushi

We all love sushi, and as with many meals you eat in a restaurant or as take away, there are always small mysteries that one never really thinks about. Some of these mysteries aren’t anything that one...

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Invasive Species Profile: Tiger Prawn (or what’s happening to ama ebi?)

Only ten percent of the global shrimp market is sourced from the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, but they remain important areas for the global ebi and ama-ebi market. The Gulf of Mexico region...

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From Zero to Hero: Six popular foods that used to be for peasants

If you know about sushi’s history, you might have heard that tuna used to be considered peasant’s food in Japan. Bluefin toro is one of the most expensive fish in the world, and is universally...

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WWF Living Planet Report offers dire news for sushi lovers

The World Wild Fund for Nature (WWF) publishes the Living Planet Report every two years. A special edition was published in 2015 delves into the deeper implications of the 2014 report on our world’s...

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Have we been eating sushi incorrectly all along?

 It would appear, according to Ka-Me brand crackers, that we have been eating our maki sushi wrong this whole time! No tips yet.Be the first to tip!Like this post? Tip me with...

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Sushi and Salmonella – Do you need to be worried?

When we think of sushi, we think of a healthy and delicious meal. We often forget that while eating sushi is in general safe, there is always an elevated risk to consuming a raw product. Even with...

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