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.
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...
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.
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...