What do you do when your sake classes do not sell out? You add sushi and naked ladies…
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Time flies! Sushi or Death has got almost 500 posts (do I have a life!?), about 600 comments (you guys need to talk more :)) and is turning 2 years today! I was recently asked what my goal was when starting this website and if it had changed since then, which got me thinking; the web is still so young that it pretty much only have beginnings…
>> Continue reading ‘SOD turns two!’
For those who are already on Second Life (and those looking for a reason to be on it), you now have a chance to go and have nyotaimori (naked sushi) at an avant-garde virtual sushi restaurant named Inachi. The platter features an artistic arrangement of finely-priced sushi adorning the nude avatar body of the virtual celebrity Codebastard Redgrave (!??)
One of the bad things about going to a kaiten sushi bar (conveyer belt sushi) is to see some of the plates going round and round… and round and the fish just getting sad and soggy. It must be hard for the sushi chefs to keep track of which pieces to remove from the belt at all times - serving good, fresh fish is key, but economy probably comes into play as well and you want to throw away as little food as possible.
>> Continue reading ‘Sushi technology’
Sustainable sushi is a buzzword these days. Trevor Corson is writing book about it, Casson Trenor has written a book about it and there are now several sushi bars that are only serving sustainable fish. Great!
An Australian advertising agency came up with a very unique way to advertise for the sushi restaurant Sushi Roll in a crowded mall. By taking pictures of sushi and attaching them to the rails of the escalator leading up to the sushi bar, they increased walk-in visitors to the restaurant by 38%! The video shows that it also got the eye and attention of pretty much everyone going up that escalator.
>> Continue reading ‘Sushi conveyor escalator’
World recession takes its toll also in the “sushi industry”. The previously reported on San Jose’s Suedy’s Koo-Ki Sushi is closing after more than 13 years of delighting foodies with whimsical handmade cookies and chocolates that resembled pieces of real sushi.
>> Continue reading ‘KOO-KI sushi out of business…’
Happy Valentines Day, good people! Hope you get your romantic and fishy fill today!
I think I will make heart shaped makis for dinner. 
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I got an email yesterday from Alexandra Boardley who is promoting a Mastering Basic Sushi course at The International Culinary Center in New York. It is held by a Japanese woman, Hiroko Shimbo, who has according to her website, a trained sushi chef and has also written several award-winning books on Japanese cooking in general and also sushi in specific. I would love to go there and take such a class, but I could not find any boats that would take me there in time. You - on the other hand, might live in NY or at least be a bit closer? If you do love sushi, wants to learn more, are in New York on March 13 (Friday!? - don’t play with knives, people), you should check this out!
Here goes the content of the e-mail:
>> Continue reading ‘Sushi class in New York, anyone?’
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Is Obama into sushi? For real? I know I posted this mock article back in the presidential race - a story from The NY Times showing the different candidates view on “sushi politics” in The candidates spin the sushi. I so want to link Obama to sushi, because I find it absolutely awesome that he is now the president in the US!
My son and husband are Americans so we were watching the inauguration on Tuesday almost with tears in our eyes. I think Barack Obama is going to be a great president! Not only for the US, but for all of us. I did actually manage to pin him to sushi. Here are the things that I managed to find!
>> Continue reading ‘Obama - the sushi President?’
TasteSpotting! I love this site. It has some wonderful images and it always leaves me really craving for good sushi…
>> Continue reading ‘Eat with your eyes’
Unfortunately I won’t be able to attend this years “Seven Sushi Samurai” event either. I will probably be playing mum right around then, and I guess just a couple of weeks is a bit too early to be introducing the little rascal to sushi… If it was only up to me…
But the rest of you should go! And getting tickets are suppose to be hard to get if you wait - last years event was totally sold out. The seven sushi chefs are annually selected from countries around the globe to represent the very pinnacle of sushi talent around the world in Eat-Japan’s Sushi Awards.
>> Continue reading ‘Sushi Awards 2008 - book tickets now!’
Lutefisk sush??i! Yuck is my initial reaction. Lutefisk is something we in Norway eat for xmas, and consists of a vile looking, soda lye treated salted/dried white fish. I don’t care for it much. (I guess my Norwegian passport will be taken from me now… :). I understand it is also quite popular in all the Nordic countries in addition to North America and Canada. And obviously Minnesota.
Because “Lutefisk sushi” here is the name of an annual Minnesotan cartoonist tradition. They have a community of cartoonists who every year or two have this event where they are to create a one-of-a-kind mini-comic. Each artist prints up to 150 copies, and each copy goes in a hand-silkscreened bento box that is stuffed with more comics and sold.
>> Continue reading ‘Lutefisk sushi’
A great post over at the blog “Stuff white people like“, where sushi is the topic #42. Apparently there are three types of white sushi eating peoples;
- The spicy tuna/california roll eaters; who get their fix at places named “Rock And Roll!” “Magic Sushi Company,” or Trader Joes-type supermarkets.
- The entry level Sushi snob, these are people who still love rolls, but are willing to branch out to Salmon and Tuna sashimi, maybe even eel
- The white sushi snob - where you only sit at the sushi bar, will try to order in Japanese and will only order Omakase. These people will often be extremely critical of anyone who eats a roll of any type or does not properly flip the nigiri into their mouths…
