Kabutokaji: celebrity, empowered tuna
A logbook by Sensei Hiroshi Umi. When Real Madrid legend Raúl González Blanco signed for the German ‘miners’ Schalke 04, bringing to an end his era at the club in 2010, I felt a huge sense of disappointment. I, like many of my...
Cuba, Asturias and museum tunas
A logbook by Sensei Hiroshi Umi. I love emigrant stories. Not the contemporary anecdotes in which an executive on a multi-million salary and bonus is transferred to Singapore, where his children grow up in a gilded cage, mollycoddled by a b...
An odyssey that ends 65 below zero
On the grey, somewhat pitted wall, alongside a tangle of discarded nets and fishing gear, the eye is drawn to a tuna with a Mona Lisa smile, drawn in chalk. There is a somewhat childlike air to the pictured fish, the outline clearly defined...
Masa Naomi: the marathon man belly whisperer
A logbook by Sensei Hiroshi Umi. Masa Naomi. Make a note of the name for your gastro stopovers… if you have not yet sampled its history and talent. It is no newcomer. In two years’ time they will be blowing out fifty candles on ...
The finest japanese knives for bluefin tuna
Ever since I arrived in this succulent enclave called Spain, I have been aware of its magnificent, historic, literary and sublime knife-making industry. The craftsmen of Arcos, born and bred in Albacete, still have their popularity and succ...
Which sake with this bluefin tuna? the definitive tasting…
A logbook by Sensei Hiroshi Umi. Forgive my initial liberty with the headline of this post. I borrow, and adapt, the title of an essential reference work to ascertain essentially how a perfect liquid match works with certain foods. Original...