Comments on: Sushi Safety: Parasites? http://www.geishablog.com/food/sushi-safety-parasites/ Journey to Perfection Sat, 22 Nov 2008 05:51:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: axaxaxas mlö http://www.geishablog.com/food/sushi-safety-parasites/#comment-2758 axaxaxas mlö Sun, 29 Jun 2008 23:15:03 +0000 http://www.geishablog.com/food/sushi-safety-parasites/#comment-2758 In Spain we eat some kinds of raw fish as well. Since about one year ago, serving raw fish in restaurants is forbidden, unless its previously frozen, the way you explain above. There has been some debate about it: people did't want to change their habbits, all those expensive, elegant restaurants oppossed. But a year latter, people have forgotten about it, and I don't really remember it, when I eat raw fish. In Spain we eat some kinds of raw fish as well. Since about one year ago, serving raw fish in restaurants is forbidden, unless its previously frozen, the way you explain above.
There has been some debate about it: people did’t want to change their habbits, all those expensive, elegant restaurants oppossed.
But a year latter, people have forgotten about it, and I don’t really remember it, when I eat raw fish.

]]> By: DBR http://www.geishablog.com/food/sushi-safety-parasites/#comment-2678 DBR Sun, 15 Jun 2008 01:46:16 +0000 http://www.geishablog.com/food/sushi-safety-parasites/#comment-2678 If these guys are talking about fish in the States then I heartily agree but every country's industry is different. Here in Australia it is similar but we don't have the nutrient crisis that is in the States you just have to be sensible: it's best to know your fishmonger. My fishmonger in Melbourne would put a choice cut of fresh salmon and tuna away for me knowing I would be there each Tuesday in Summer to Autumn and I would make homemade sushi/sashimi that night but on the days in between all fish would be cooked. I haven't found a fishmonger in Sydney that I am happy with and miss fish enormously - good quality fish is one of the major things I am looking forward to when we move to Japan (in 8 days!!) Fish is certainly not the only thing to be careful of in the States - there is a real crisis of nutrients there. I was in LA in '05 and seriously couldn't believe how poor quality the food was even when we had the money to shop at the "gourmet" supermarkets. I tried to explain to one of my mother's friends (I was visiting my mother in Cal) that vegetables in Australia have different flavours and are not just colour and fibre! The eggs particularly were appalling even the "free range" ones and I couldn't bring myself to buy the meat in the supermarkets and yet could not find a butcher anywhere. Unfortunately the situation in Sydney is similar and I'm sure will eventually spread across the country too if we aren't careful. Farming fish or farming oranges purely for quantity is always going to have nutritional repercussions. If these guys are talking about fish in the States then I heartily agree but every country’s industry is different.
Here in Australia it is similar but we don’t have the nutrient crisis that is in the States you just have to be sensible: it’s best to know your fishmonger. My fishmonger in Melbourne would put a choice cut of fresh salmon and tuna away for me knowing I would be there each Tuesday in Summer to Autumn and I would make homemade sushi/sashimi that night but on the days in between all fish would be cooked. I haven’t found a fishmonger in Sydney that I am happy with and miss fish enormously - good quality fish is one of the major things I am looking forward to when we move to Japan (in 8 days!!)

Fish is certainly not the only thing to be careful of in the States - there is a real crisis of nutrients there. I was in LA in ‘05 and seriously couldn’t believe how poor quality the food was even when we had the money to shop at the “gourmet” supermarkets. I tried to explain to one of my mother’s friends (I was visiting my mother in Cal) that vegetables in Australia have different flavours and are not just colour and fibre! The eggs particularly were appalling even the “free range” ones and I couldn’t bring myself to buy the meat in the supermarkets and yet could not find a butcher anywhere.

Unfortunately the situation in Sydney is similar and I’m sure will eventually spread across the country too if we aren’t careful. Farming fish or farming oranges purely for quantity is always going to have nutritional repercussions.

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