And it’s having a moment. Are puffer fish and blowfish the same thing? The fish goes by several names, and all of them — puffer fish, fugu, blowfish — refer to the same family of scaleless ...

Fugu roe, or fish eggs, are “thick and creamy ... Somarriba gives an honorable mention to the Northern puffer too. He says this type of blowfish, Sphoeroides maculatus, is also known as ...

Westerners have never quite understood the reverence in Japan for fugu, alternately known in English as puffer fish, globefish or blowfish, of the family Tetraodontidae. A sluggish swimmer ...

More than 50 years ago, my Grandpop Kline would frequently take me out onto Rehoboth Bay to fish for a unique species of puffer fish, known colloquially in the area of the bay as blowfish or ...

Paper-thin slices of almost transparent raw fish glisten in spirals on the platter before you, arranged like the petals of a chrysanthemum. Put a cool, firm slice of fugu puffer fish in your mouth ...

Brazil is reportedly home to 20 species of pufferfish — also known as blowfish — a dozen of which ... the Brazilian and his buddy gutted the fish, removed its liver and then boiled and ate ...

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.

Yamadaya has been serving puffer fish for over 100 years. Their fugu is caught in southern Japan and airlifted alive to their Tokyo restaurants. In Haedomari Market the fugu is auctioned off using ...

Puffer fish, or fugu, is well-known for being a dish that stands a good chance of killing the person it’s served to. But people still eat it — partly because some people like living life on ...