Oysters are exceptionally delicious and endlessly fascinating, with their myriad flavor profiles putting them—like wine—in the rarefied realm of foods to be savored slowly and with care.
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kuro means black and buta means pig, or simply "black pig"
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With all due respect to Wilbur from E.B. White's famous children's classic Charlotte's Web, the kurobuta is indeed "some pig."To be more p...
wa means Japanese, and gyū means cattle, or simply “Japanese cattle”.
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It melts on your palate like the most sublime foie gras, and leaves a satin finish on your tongue like a dash of smooth-as-si...
(kav-ee-ahr) the roe of sturgeon, especially the beluga, or other fish, usually served as hors d'oeuvre or appetizer
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In ancient times, Persian nobles were believed to be the first people who had a p...
the liver of specially formed geese or ducks, used as a table delicacy, especially in the form of a paste (pate de foie gras)
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Some 5,000 years ago, the Egyptians discovered that ducks and geese a...