Posted on 12/05/2016 3:40:15 PM PST by Lorianne
Slippery slope.
Which eel to choose?
Eelie, meelie, mylee mo, catch an feelie by the toe...
Sorry, couldn’t resist.
Bought my mother and sister eel-skin purses the first time I was stationed in Korea.
Eel pizza
I’m assuming these eels are for consumption. I had sushi yesterday and the eel nigiri was incredible.
He butchers and cures them (how's that for an oxymoron?) in his own smoke house to ship world wide.
He gets to successfully live the mountain hippie lifestyle with minimal fuss.
Lol. I like my pizza plain, though a BIT of salami on the top wouldn't kill me.
Fish and cheese...eeewwwww!
An old friend of mine had a brother doing the same thing with wild ginseng root.
Interesting, after doing a little research I find that glass eels are the exact same creature as the eels that I catch from time to time in the Ohio River. They are “glass eels” until they enter fresh water. I was aware of their life cycle but didn’t know they were the same eels eaten around the world and used for sushi.
I’ve eaten eels from the river here and they are delicious. No wonder the sushi is so good.
I LOVE sushi and sashimi. I guess, then, that I WILL eat eel.
I believe this controversy revolves around getting product for the legendary Japanese eel dish...unagi.
One legendary Japanese chef opened an impossibly elegant Japanese restaurant in Paris.
Parisians flock there to have one dish.....the unagi.
I strongly recommend it. The eel nigiri was the best part of a fantastic meal. I hadn’t eaten sushi before this year and now I can’t get enough. I can understand why people turn their noses up to it, but they are just denying themselves great food.
Surprised to not see any reference to the US. Only 2 states allow the export of baby eels (called elvers), Maine and South Carolina. Here in Maine it is tightly controlled. Native Americans get permits and a small quota of others are allowed to fish (net) for them.
This make the business very valuable with elvers fetching $2,000 per lb with no processing cost (unlike sea urchins that are opened and meat removed before shipping).
Unagi served in a Japanese LACQUERED bento box---so elegant.
There is no significant eel fraud. It is a myth.
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