A new project began to take shape: a fish known as the fugu.

It is fugu, the most dangerous fish to eat raw.

The fugu came, and Tori told him what it was.

But my "fugu moment" came a couple of months ago in Copenhagen.

"I would have killed that legionnaire if the fugu took you from me."

Part of the training involves eating the fugu that you have sliced up.

Everyone in the room heard her order fugu but the rest of the conversation was in a lower voice.

Since that year, some other American restaurants offer fugu.

Lanterns can be made from the bodies of preserved fugu.

Though the reasons for this is unknown, she apparently has a license to cook fugu.

So why would anyone contemplate eating fugu at all?

The smock is also called a fugu or a batakari.

After the 1984 importation the agency banned import or use of fugu.

But the risk has diminished to the point that it is now possible to eat fugu absentmindedly.

"It gives some people the same thrill as eating fugu fish in Japan.

I think I'd rather eat fugu than risk dining here...

This makes the fugu a lethal meal for most predators, including the occasional human.

Fugu: A blowfish who can puff himself up to many times his original size.

Consumers believe that this training process makes it safer to eat fugu in restaurants or markets.

Most Japanese cities enjoy one or more fugu restaurants.

Every year about 100 fugu fanciers in Japan fail to survive dinner.

But now fugu has a new reputation: as an important cog in the effort to understand the human genome.

"Fugu can be very poisonous if The chef makes a mistake.

Lutt look his fork and broke off a large bite of the fugu.

By contrast, when the Japanese want to show off, they order a delicacy: the liver of the fugu fish.