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Plant-based meats have been in the news lately, but I’ve been thinking about plant-based fish. First, an update on the proposed Texas Meat and Imitation Food Act, a piece of state legislation that would prevent companies that make plant-based proteins from using the word "meat,” “beef," "chicken," "pork" or any "common variation" of them to describe the product, even if only to claim similar textures, flavors or cooking methods. The bill, H.B. 3799, recently passed in the House and will m...

*takes deep breath, suppresses rage, donates money to anything that’s not Republican* Okay, then. Let’s, ah, lets try to keep going with what we’d wrangled before the above news dropped … Well-funded sushi lovers, this one’s for you. Sushi lovers, because there’s a 17-course omakase pop-up from the excellent chefs of Osome – they’ll be featuring premium fish from Japanese fish markets Toyosu and Fukuoka, aged fishes, imported beef raised in Miyazaki Prefecture, and Australian ...