"escolar" news and stories

At a recent sushi dinner at Sasabune in Los Angeles, I passed my "butterfish" on to a dining companion because I had recently read a few Internet items regarding the fish.

A few years ago, there was a USDA warning about escolar, saying that many restaurants were mis-labeling it as "seabass." The mis-labeling wasn't so much the problem as was the GI problem that the fish caused in people when it was undercooked. Some of the fatty acids in escolar are indigestible by humans, and when they reach the colon, cause cramping and eerie, orange, oily diarrhea. Because the site where I read the information also mentioned "butterfish" alongside escolar, I was wary because not five or six days before, I had eaten butterfish sushi (raw, and not at Sasabune) and had similar GI problems for five days.

[via: Eating LA]