Fugu, or the flesh of the blowfish, can be deadly if prepared the wrong way, as anyone who has seen the Simpsons episode where Homer is given 24 hours to live after having it served to him by an ...

Fried fugu. Photograph courtesy of Flickr user istolethetv. There’s no more notorious food than fugu—a.k.a. puffer fish, a potentially deadly Japanese delicacy. So young sushi chef Jason Zheng caused ...

In case you didn’t know, tetrodotoxin is the lethal poison found in the internal organs (the liver, gonads, and ovaries, specifically) of that great Japanese delicacy called fugu, or blowfish.

For many travelers, part of the fun of exploring the world is trying new-to-them foods that are unavailable back home. Sometimes, that means eating parts of an animal they're not used to or chomping ...

FACT: Eat the wrong part of a blowfish and you can die within hours. Death on a plate arrives in so many shapes and textures and pretty arrangements that for a moment I forget this meal can kill me.

Pufferfish is notorious for the potentially lethal amounts of poison it contains in its liver and ovaries. While most parts of the fish are edible, pufferfish consumption is tightly controlled in ...

Death on a plate arrives in so many shapes and textures and pretty arrangements that for a moment I forget this meal can kill me. But soon my mind snaps back to attention. At the Tokyo restaurant ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Eat the wrong part of a blowfish and you can die within hours. Death on a plate arrives in so many shapes, textures and pretty ...

Eat Bar Masa’s Fried Fugu — We Double-Dog Dare YouFugu, or the flesh of the blowfish, can be deadly if prepared the wrong way, as anyone who has seen the Simpsons episode where Homer is given 24 hours ...

Whoops! There was an error and we couldn't process your subscription. Please reload the page and try again. My first bite of tora-fugu, the Japanese species of ...