Cupcakes has had a revival the past couple of years. Here is another add to that - make your cupcakes really stand out by having custom made cupcake sleves.
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I love sushi flatware. This designer, Vikki Smyth, is quite special. Her approach is for from traditional Japanese. She makes food presentation and table-top sets for high end hotels (W, Wynn’s places) according to Gizmondo. Here is her signature piece, the Sushi-Ushi sushi tray, a colorful, playful sushi tray that really stands out.
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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.
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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!

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It has been so long since I went looking for sushi websites out there - and there are now so many great ones! Will post them here in the next weeks. If you have some good links, please tell me about them as well.

Behind the website “In the Kitchen with a Southern Sushi Chef” we find a passionate sushi chef called Marisa. She went to the California Sushi Academy to study the art of sashimi, nigiri-zushi, makimono, and kaiseki under the sushi masters Toshi Sugiura and Nobuo Kishimoto. Baggett became the first African American female graduate of the school!

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A good introduction into the Japanese names for different types of sushi. And a glimpse of how cool equipment they have in Japanese sushi kaiten sushi bars.

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.
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Now here is a great website! The fact that it links to Sushi or Death is not the ONLY reason for why I am writing about it… Fish´n Rice is based in Denmark and has all kinds of sushi information. It is a bit confusing that the menu is in English while the content is in Danish. Well - I still understand it, but I guess a lot of you guys might not. Anyway, their sushi finder tool is still a great tool for you if you are going to Denmark in general and Copenhagen in particular - so you have a way of finding out where you can get your sushi fill there!
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I am into baby things these days, and surprisingly - the little guy has actually not been subjected to that much sushi stuff yet. He has no sushi toys, no sushi clothes - but as I said - yet. I went bib shopping today…
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Another tool that will help you make sushi into “fast food”… We already featured the sushi roller last year. This time it is some sort of a tube that will make your makis ready and shoved out in a heartbeat. Hmm.
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A lot of people are looking for information about calories and general health aspects for eating sushi. We can see that here, because our posts on calories in sushi are ALWAYS the most read (in addition to the one on naked sushi - nyotaimori…). I think this is because sushi is so yummy, that you cant stop eating it and you hope it is healthy, so you can keep up your habit… Well - for the most part that is correct, at least for the raw fish aspect of it. A lot of the rolls and also the sushi rice itself, the soy sauce and the ginger contains quite a bit of calories… (I think we should still just decide that it is good for you; it makes you happy and is therefore healthy…)

Well anyway - Warren - the sushi guy at SushiFAQ, has updated his page on calories in sushi, a table in which you can find the type of sushi you are looking for the calorie count for.
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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.
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Here is someone who is encouraging sushi meals by knitting your own! They sell this pdf-pattern that shows you how to make this 16 piece sushi set. It has a description on how to make your own cucumber roll, futomaki, inside-out roll, battleship roll, tuna nigiri, salmon, egg, clam, eel, crab stick, shrimp and octopus nigiri in addition to ginger, wasabi, inari and decorative grass.
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This is something within the sushi tradition that I am actually against. Ikezukuri (生き作り/活け造り) is live fish being caught, sliced and served - without being killed. So - you end up with this gaping fish on your table looking at you… It is not for me.

I have done it twice, but accidentally through ordering omakase and forgetting to let them know not to serve us that. I feel you should make sure that the fish IS completely dead before it is served. It needn’t be THAT fresh… I think it is just for the spectacle.

Because that is what it is. So - for those of you who can stomach it - here is a video of Telegraph reporter Danielle Demetriou taste tests some of Tokyo’s freshest fish…
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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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