Word: sashimi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nutrition, use their spare time to teach such Japanese native skills as origami and karate. Despite their Asian eyes and skin color, the Japanese Peace Corpsmen find it as challenging to relate to underdeveloped Asia as do their round-eyed American counterparts. For all their own appetite for sashimi (raw fish) and sea urchin's eggs, they have difficulty stomaching such delicacies as Philippine balut, an embryonic duck...
...Japanese can think of nothing better to do with the coarse oily sailfish than grind it up into fish sausages. But marlin is considered a delicacy in meat-short Japan, where it is served fried or raw-garnished with soy sauce and horseradish to make a dish called sashimi...
...peak of fugu gastronomy is sashimi made from the rare tiger fugu: paper-thin slices of raw fish flesh arranged artistically on platters in flower or bird patterns. Japanese, who pay $8 for two ounces of tiger fugu sashimi, eat it with almost religious ceremony and little or no risk. The sashimi is cut from the back flesh of the fugu, which is nonpoisonous* unless it has been carelessly contaminated with poison from other parts...