Bonito

These salted bonito guts are too salty for me.

For the residents of Edo, the first bonito of the year was something that had to be bought, even if it meant borrowing money.

All the atolls swarm with various kinds of fishes, amongst which the bonito predominates; and they are very cheap.

Football can be the ticket out of the grinding poverty of neighborhoods like Tavares Bastos, a poor community built on a hill overlooking Rio de Janeiro’s famous Flamengo beach. Jogo Bonito, as the game is often called, is part of life for residents of this favela, where most people work for minimum wage or in the informal economy.

Mr Scott, the chief mate, being a capital fisherman, the table was almost daily furnished with an albacore, bonito, or dolphin, and not unfrequently with all three, which he struck with a gig.

Making dashi is simple once you have katsuobushi (shaved, dried bonito flakes) and kombu (sea kelp), which have become increasingly easy to find across the United States. (You can also order them online.)