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A new study by a national conservation group found 32 percent of seafood samples from Chicago retailers were mislabeled as another fish entirely.

To get to Kesennuma these days, Japan's biggest port town about two hours by bullet train northwest of Tokyo, I had to take a taxi yesterday an hour to the coast.It's cold and snowing here, with only a few inches on the ground, but a total whiteout.

 I'm turning over the blog today, to my intern, Dimitra Apostolopoulos, a grad student at Columbia College.

I’m usually not a fan of platters.  More precisely, I tend to shy away from any sort of mass-service, group-intended eating from the trough.  I avoid buffets like a Bears fan shuns Lambeau and don’t want anything to do with those &ldq

Chicago isn't exactly New York City or San Francisco when it comes to amazing sushi joints.  I was just walking through San Francisco's Japantown earlier this week, and couldn't get over the number of Japanese restaurants patronized by ex-pats.  But we do have a few gems.