PORTLAND, Maine -- Tiny translucent elvers – alien-looking baby eels the size of toothpicks, with big black eyes and spines – are mysteri...
Cathy Erway | Posted 03.04.2012
Seeing the unsightly necessities of eating eel is a visceral experience that may change your perception of the dish for good. And then you realize that any creature that gives its life so that you can eat is beautiful -- and if you ate it, then it's a part of you now, too.
Posted 11.05.2011
Scientists working near the Pacific island nation of Palau discovered a new species of eel which they dubbed a “living fossil.” In the video be...
Josh Ozersky | Posted 05.25.2011
Previously: Sashimi at Sushi Zen, Part I ...
Josh Ozersky | Posted 05.25.2011
Toshio Suzuki, the proprietor of Sushi Zen, is in many ways the dean of sushi here in New York -- the man many chefs, both Japanese and otherwise, loo...
James Prosek | Posted 05.25.2011
As children we caught them by accident while fishing and treated them brutally. But over years I have come to love the eel, and I think it has to do with their ability to keep their life history veiled from humans.
Andy McDonald | Posted 05.25.2011
Where do you go for a rectum eel? Do you have a rectum eel go-to guy? Is he also your regular edible eel supplier?
Posted 05.25.2011
A Chinese man has died after an eel was inserted in rectum by friends as, reports claim, a joke. Doctors in Sichaun, China, apparently found the crea...
AP | CLARKE CANFIELD | Posted 04.03.2012