If you ’re willing to thrust down$140 for the tasting menuat Le Bernardin — perhaps the great seafood - orient restaurant in the country , with three Michelin sensation and four from the NYT — you may nom on the fluke sashimi without care about radioactive taint .
That ’s because in improver to no longer sourcing seafood from Japan , chef Eric Ripert ’s now hired hand - screening all of the fishcoming into the restaurant for radioactive contaminant . Will it make patrons feel advantageously while simultaneously subtly inducing more panic ? Yes .
gestate this kind of thing to become de rigueur at any billet that pretend to care about the provenance of its intellectual nourishment — well - view Sushi Yasuda in NY is already accompany suit — even as a senior scientist at the FDA recount the NYT , “ Is that one fish at the interposition degree a public wellness vexation ? No , it is not . ” And another scientist , a professor of marine sciences at SUNY Stony Brook add that , devote the current spirit level of caesium 137 detect in Japanese Pisces the Fishes , you could eat around 35 pounds of it a year and be fine .
But yes , if you ’re willing to devote for constitutive boeuf grown on a particular farm and eat only the okay non - additive grass and massaged day by day for all - natural marbling , you may also pimp hand - screened , non - radioactive Pisces . You ’re paying for it , after all . Me ? I like pork better anyway . [ NYT ]
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