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Since I was in high school I have been quite a fan of Iron Chef America. I'm not sure whether it's the sound of Alton Brown's voice or maybe it's a somewhat cheesy, but ever entertaining dialogue. Or maybe it's just the sheer skills that the chefs bring to the table. Whatever it is, I find difficulty changing the channel. And recently, though late to the party, Iron Chef finally banned the use of bluefin tuna from its menu after a food blogger challenged Brown to stop the double standard.
According to LA Weekly, after chef Makoto Okuwa served a dish using otoro, or bluefin tuna belly, on the show last week, food blogger Richard Auffrey issued a public challenge to Brown. And rather swiftly, Iron Chef America officially banned bluefin tuna from the show.
Most of us by now know the depth of the problem. Rachel wrote a while back that Atlantic bluefin stocks have fallen by 25 percent of their pre-commercial fishing levels, with overfishing in just the last 10 years causing 60 percent of that decline. And for all of us sustainable eaters, bluefin tuna is just plain off limits. Instead, choose similar species from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Guide that are much less overfished like bigeye or yellowfin tuna from the Atlantic.
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