SFGate's food critic reports on Ippukku, a Japanese chicken restaurant in Berkeley. Pic.: Raw chicken with raw egg. “There’s Salmonella in everything you eat. Whether it’s raw fish, beef tartare or chicken, you can get sick if you eat too much. It’s a risk you take.”
Ippukku is not to be confused with Seppukku 切腹 "stomach-cutting", the Japanese disembowelment ritual.
4 comments:
I don't get the deal on eating meat raw. Claude Levi-Strauss developed an anthropological theory around the cooked and the raw, with cooking representing an advance in civilisation. I had a Japanese colleague who complained on occasions about the poor quality of raw fish and chicken available in Singapore. It appears that in Japan the flesh of these animals are tastier due the better climate there.
Eating raw meat and raw eggs is the very peak of refinement and luxury. You cant have a plate like that in Berkeley for less than a hundred dollars.
Japanese think everything tastes better if it is Japanese. At one time they claimed that Japanese people could not digest foreign rice, so it did not violate trade rules to ban rice imports. They did this with a straight face. I think.
There may be salmonella in "everything" but all of it is dead and harmless if you cook the food. Without exaggeration, my DOG will not eat raw chicken. I've tried offering it to her and she won't even touch it though she absolutely loves cooked chicken. Maybe my dog knows something.
Salmonella infected chickens deposit the bacteria INSIDE their eggs (I don't know about the flesh) so the infection is NOT always the result of contamination of the outside surface as the article says.
K
I presume your dog is not Japanese but a yid. What do you expect?
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