Flavor balance is key to crafting complex, expertly seasoned food. You have to be able to grasp how the five flavor elements — sweetness, saltiness, sourness, bitterness, and umami — react with each ...

Tuna steak is one of those dishes that’s deceptively simple, but hard to get right. With a long history of being prepared and eaten in Japan, in recent decades, yellowfin tuna (aka ahi) has gained ...

Beautifully medium-rare tuna provides the ideal partner to crisp, cool cucumbers marinated in vinegar and chili crisp. The tuna — hot outside and cool inside — soaks up the cucumber marinade just as ...

Just about every night this time of year, the most seductive smell breezes into my apartment like a taunt. Somewhere some neighbor has fired up a hardwood grill for dinner while I’m trapped with ...

Tataki is a Japanese cooking technique that dates back a few centuries, supposedly to a legendary samurai. I thought about this while my chopsticks placed a piece of Fudo’s seared tuna on my tongue.