On June 13-15, enjoy restaurant specials, tide-pool explorations and visiting a real “Urchin Ranch” in Mendocino.

A spiky, alien-looking sea creature, uni is also highly prized for its complex flavor. We interviewed the experts for an in-depth guide.

Uni is the new lobster. Uni, the Japanese name for sea urchin, isn’t a substitute for lobster meat in cooking; that’s not what I’m getting at here. What’s up is that, in some oceans ...

The country’s first-ever festival dedicated to sea urchin, or more simply called uni in the culinary world, is taking place June 17th-19th in on the Mendocino Coast. As one of the biggest ...

The edible part of the sea urchin known as uni has earned its status as a high-end sushi bar treat in Japan and now pretty much everywhere else. But sea urchins have been long fished and harvested ...

I enjoy mine with salt.” The quality of uni depends on a number of factors – the type of sea urchin, the region it came from and even the kind of kelp it ate. One factor that surprised us (but ...

Don't scratch your boat. - So when you go to the sushi bar and you order uni, what you're ordering is a sea urchin gonad. My early experiences with uni were in sushi bars where it had been ...

I found a restaurant in Vancouver, Canada that’s dedicated to sea urchin (uni)—yes, an entire menu built around one of the ocean’s most luxurious and controversial ingredients. From fresh ...

The green sea urchin, Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis ... Still, you can find Maine urchin uni locally, and it is delicious. However, getting the delicate uni out of their thorny shells is ...

I was lonely. Something needed to change. That’s how I found myself diving for sea urchin. I’d had uni before, but it was probably treated with alum as a preservative. I didn’t want that.