Any time I have ever mentioned bonito flakes, either online or in this thing called “real life,” one very well meaning person will say “I thought those were for cats.” While it’s true that a cat would ...

Say hello to bonito flakes. They’re waving at you, perched on an Osaka Pancake at the newest Tom Douglas restaurant, TanakaSan. The heat from the savory pancake—a variation on traditional okonomiyaki ...

Cut the tuna into 1/4-inch thick slices. Place a cucumber slice under each piece of tuna and set three on each salt brick or plate. (The sashimi tuna must be set on the salt immediately just before ...

This simple tapas offering is from Spain's Basque region, where it is typical bar food. This version, from Jose Andres' cookbook, "Made in Spain," combines crunchy bread, soft onion and meaty tuna.

At the heart of so much of Japanese cooking is the fragrant broth called dashi. And at the heart of dashi are the delicate pink petals of katsuobushi, shaved flakes of dried bonito fish. When steeped ...

If you have never seen tuna flakes served on a hot dish this is a real show-stopper. The dish is delicious in its own right but the entertainment value of the tuna flakes — which begin moving and thus ...