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 ...

Fans of sushi—and The Simpsons—know all about the fugu. The Japanese delicacy, also known as pufferfish, has a dark side. The edible parts of the fish—served as sashimi or fried—are surrounded by ...

The star of a Japanese dish called fugu is a puffer fish that produces toxins so deadly that it can kill if prepared improperly. Yet the delicacy is so popular that overfishing may be pushing one ...

The poisonous Japanese pufferfish, known as fugu to gourmets who risk their lives eating it, has yielded valuable new genetic information in the quest for deeper knowledge of the basics of human ...

Pufferfish can be served for human consumption as a delicacy called fugu. It is especially popular in Japan, but you may also see it available in other countries, including Korea, China, Singapore, ...

In Japan, puffer fish is considered a delicacy, but the tickle to the taste buds comes with a tickle to the nerves: fugu contains tetrodotoxin, a strong nerve toxin. In low doses, tetrodotoxin is ...

Eddie Huang Hits a Roadblock in His Restaurant Search In the middle of negotiations on a great space in the East Village, his contractor shares some bad news.

The seaside city of Shimonoseki in southern Japan has a desirable specialty in the culinary world – the potentially deadly delicacy fugu. Also called blowfish or pufferfish, fugu is available ...

The poisonous puffer fish, which inflates itself into a small balloon when caught, lives in most of the world’s oceans. But only in Japan, where it is called fugu, has it become a national tradition.

The genome of the poisonous puffer fish has been sequenced by an international consortium of researchers. Comparison with the “clean” DNA of the fish will help scientists pick out human genes from the ...

The brother and sister showed up in the emergency room with odd symptoms – numb teeth, weakness and, most frightening, troubled breathing. They’d eaten banned, deadly poisonous pufferfish. There ...