This cake is made by Zoe Lukas and is what she calls vegetarian sushi… It is made out of spiced carrot ginger cake with cream cheese icing, and the both the the chopsticks, soy sauce bowl, snap peas are of course also edible and made out of gum-paste. The bamboo, wasabi and ginger are made out of fondant, while the rice is coconut. Yummy! Wish I had a cooking friend like this!
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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.
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“Founded by veterans of Google and YouTube, Howcast.com tries to brings together the personality of user-generated content with the quality of a professional video studio to create engaging, informative, and free how-to videos for consumers.” It is a great service for when you look for good quality videos. Here is one that in an educating way shows you how to make nigiri sushi.
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.
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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…
One of our sushi heroes, Trevor Corson, was the judge on Iron Chef America a couple of weeks back. Here he got to taste a lot of brilliant of food and looks like he belongs on TV. You’ll have your own show soon, Trevor!
The episode was called “Battle Blackfish,” and stood between Michael Cimarusti of Providence restaurant in L.A. against Iron Chef Morimoto. Enjoy!
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An absolutely lovely porcelain sushi set from Austria’s Feinedinge handmade ceramics. The choice of colors and images for the embellishment are beautiful and I would love to have some of these.
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A cute little video on how to make a nice bento box, using egg molds to turn hard boiled eggs into cars and fish!
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Right next to Phero sushi you find Grand Sushi. That there is a market for these two sushi take out places up here in addition to Sushihuset just a bit further down on Carl Berners Plass is a mystery, but they are all doing ok it seems like.
Of the three I think I like Grand Sushi the best. It smells clean, the fish is properly kept and laid out, the service is friendly and quite fast, so as a take out place on my way from work, it works very well.
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Eagles eat fish, and usually they get it sashimi style. This image was just too cool not to put up here…
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Here is a vegetarian sushi recipe I found and wanted to share with you guys. I don’t think Chrystal really can call this sushi, since the rice is missing altogether, but it is an interesting, new twist:
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Actually being in “happy circumstances” and expecting a new sushi eating little one - you find weird things like this: The perfect centerpiece at any “Green” baby shower.
A super-modern twist on the diaper cake: Diaper Sushi!™ The perfect gift for hip parents-to-be! Now even babies can enjoy sushi! We don’t really have baby showers in Norway, but if we did - this might be a preferred choice of gift. 
Just walking around in Japanese grocery stores is a big thrill to me. Everything is just so cute, even regular type food! Japanese candy is usually doubly cute and this example is no exception. How about some Gummi Sushi!?
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I had the pleasure of going to Russia a couple of weeks ago. Here we were taken out to a great restaurant called Terrassa. It was in a high end shopping house called the Ginza Project, where you can also visit boutique like stores before eating.
Before going to Russia I was warned by someone who had had really bad sushi there, so I was quite sceptical. But that was - at least at Terrassa - quite unfounded.
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