How to Eat Sushi

All this talk about mercury in tuna got us hungry for sushi. The next four entries will be all about eating sushi and making rolls.

Sushi is snack cuisine. It’s meant to be eaten with your hands while half-drunk and on your way to all-drunk. The fact that sushi chefs train for eight years to become sushi chefs means that there is a certain amount of respect that one needs to give sushi.

Here are the Rules of Respect:
Don’t put wasabi on your sushi in front of a real-life sushi chef because it’s like putting hot sauce on your croque monsieur in front of a real-life French chef
Don’t dip your rice in the soy sauce
Dip your fish in the soy sauce
Eat the thing in one near-choking bite

How to Eat Sushi:
Use chopsticks to take a bite of ginger
You may use your fingers to pick up nigiri and seaweed wrapped rolls
Turn the piece of nigiri over and eat the sushi so that the fish touches your tongue first (for reals!)
Sip of miso
Repeat

There’s more to it than that, but that’s in the book which is due out soon. Promise.

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