The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s clinical description of tetrodotoxin is as follows: “The consumption of toxic amounts of tetrodotoxin results primarily in neurologic and ...

Chef Kato Toshikazu, of the SanQi restaurant in Mumbai’s Four Seasons Hotel, comes across as a quiet, unassuming man. But at 31, he already enjoys a rare power—the ability to cook fugu (pronounced foo ...

Reporting from Tokyo — Veteran chef Yutaka Sasaki has a plan to remove the fear of eating one of the most poisonous fish on the planet: He wants to feed it to the emperor. The blowfish, known here as ...

Plenty of people travel by their stomachs. Some people’s stomachs, however, have a death wish. Take, for instance, the enticement of eating fugu. This puffer fish is infamous for its lethal amounts of ...

I am staring at death on my plate. Or rather, death is staring up at me from my plate. A thin, white strip of sashimi puffer fish or Japanese fugu. Also called blow fish and puffer fish, it is one of ...

Eating a Japanese blowfish can definitely kill you, but you can rest assured this 10-year-old girl will prepare it safely. The fugu, also known as blowfish, preparation certification test is one of ...

Delicately sliced and arranged like a crane for this sashimi platter, fugu is pretty as a picture. For some diners, the risk and the myth around fugu-eating is precisely its charm. Photos Provided to ...

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 ...

Bob Blumer has always been something of a daredevil among Food Network personalities. From cooking a meal on a car engine during his series The Surreal Gourmet to entering a hot-chili-eating contest ...

| خزاز on PexelsOrdering fugu in Japan means placing your life in someone else's hands. This isn't hyperbole—it's a simple ...