The Best 50 Sushi Rolls (Best 50)
Average customer rating: 2 out of 5 stars
  • A fun little gift item
  • Waste of Money!!!!
  • Disturbing, to say the least
  • 1 star is too many
  • It's fun!
The Best 50 Sushi Rolls (Best 50)
Carol M. Newman
Manufacturer: Bristol Publishing Enterprises
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ASIN: 1558672311

Product Description

Easy-roll recipes, some traditional and many innovative, are easier to construct than you think. While you are rolling, learn a little about Japanese etiquette and phrases.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars A fun little gift item.......2007-03-04

I think it's amusing to find everyone taking something--that's not supposed to be a serious book on sushi--so seriously! If you are a fan of some of the crazy rolls we see on sushi menus these days (and there are pletny of them), this tiny book plays up to that. At four bucks from a company with a line of these little 'Best of' series, what does one expect?

1 out of 5 stars Waste of Money!!!!.......2007-01-15

This book was a joke!! It was an actual insult to Japanese cuisine. I thought that this was going to be a nice little book with recipes for some great sushi rolls, but I got surprised!! There are no pictures or diagrams what-so-ever except the one on the cover. And the sushi rolls that they have listed are horrible......"goat cheese, corn, and basil roll", "blt roll", and "peanut butter and jelly roll". Get real.
Don't even waste your money on this book. It should have a negative rating if that was possible.

1 out of 5 stars Disturbing, to say the least.......2006-08-31

This is by far the most retarted book on sushi i have ever seen. It almost makes me embarrased to call myself an American. I have NEVER seen anything like this before, and im sure the sushi bars all over America who make wonderful authentic Japanese sushi would be mortified to see this book.

none of the recipes sound good at all, and its a huge disapointment considering it's titles claim. at most, the so called 'western' sushi recipes look and sound disgusting.

1 out of 5 stars 1 star is too many.......2003-02-23

I wish the rating system had a negative stars rating. I haven't read this book, but the discription I got from other readers is enough for me. The saddest part is that, we can tell from the 2nd review that, this book has caused at least 1 japanese person to take on the belief that americans could never know or love real sushi. this is a tragedy.

4 out of 5 stars It's fun!.......2003-02-16

Anyone who reads this book should realize it's a lighthearted, stylized take on sushi ... and, at several dollars, not a comprehensive guide to authentic technique and culinary history. A weakness of buying books over the internet: sometimes the buyer expects something other than he or she orders (hint: you can actually see books in a bookstore!). I enjoyed some of the farcical receipes (even if I'd NEVER actually eat them). Try giving this book with a true sushi cookbook and some inexpensive accessories. Four stars!
Quick & Easy Sushi Cook Book
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Nicely presented, but incomplete
  • Excellent "how to" guide to making sushi
Quick & Easy Sushi Cook Book
Heihachiro Tohyama
Manufacturer: JOIE, INC.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 4915249042

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars Nicely presented, but incomplete.......2001-11-11

The pictures are undoubtedly the best feature of this book: they're clear, bright, colorful, and most-importantly, helpful. The text and recipes are easy to understand, although not flawless; occasionally, they read like poorly-translated stereo instructions.

However, the author has strangely neglected several of the most common types of sushi. There's absolutely no mention of fresh salmon (sake), yellowtail (hamachi), grilled eel (unagi), or even tobiko. Some of the more popular rolls in the USA, such as spicy tuna, California (crab & avocado), and spider (crab tempura) are also missing. A section on sashimi would've been nice as well, but no luck.

Rice, the basic ingredient of any sushi, only gets three pages in the back, and they're all in black-and-white (unlike the glorious color photos used for everything else).

In short, it's a nice presententation, but woefully incomplete.

5 out of 5 stars Excellent "how to" guide to making sushi.......2000-02-12

This book is an excellent guide in teaching you how to make sushi. There are literally hundreds of pictures in the book. You will find all of the typical edomae-sushi and "rolls" that you get at a Japanese restaurant. It will take you step by step through each of these, from selecting and making the rice, forming the rice balls, cutting the fish, choosing the fish, making sushi rolls, etc. I have been making sushi for myself and friends for over six years, and it started with this book. I highly recommend it for a "do-it-yourself" type person. One last tip: go to an oriental food store and get quality soy sauce, rice, seaweed, etc. It makes a BIG difference.
Easy Sushi
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Good for intermediate cooks, great tips on how to make sushi fun
  • My First Sushi book
  • Shopping suggestion
  • It's ok
  • Didn't really care for it
Easy Sushi
Emi Kazuko , and Peter Cassidy
Manufacturer: Ryland Peters & Small
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1841721050

Book Description

With clean, fresh flavours and great good looks, sushi has never been so popular. It's delicious as a light meal or as part of a more substantial Japanese dinner and makes perfect party food. The term "sushi" is taken from sumeshi, meaning vinegared rice, a vital part of all sushi dishes, In "Easy Sushi" Japanese food writer Emi Kazuko shows you how to cook the rice perfectly and how to make simple rolled sushi using classic ingredients such a cucumber, tuna, or salmon. Once you've mastered the easy ones you can explore more adventurous variations, using easy-to-find ingredients. Emi's philosophy is that creating sushi should be fun and there is even a section on sushi for children. If you thought making sushi was strictly for the professionals. Easy Sushi will amaze you. With Emi's simple-to-prepare recipes, all captured by leading food photographer Peter Cassidy, you will never eat take-out sushi again!

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars Good for intermediate cooks, great tips on how to make sushi fun.......2007-02-22

Great Pictures on how to present your sushi, and great tips on kids sushi. Recipies are not all traditional Japanese sushi, but mixed ingredients.

4 out of 5 stars My First Sushi book.......2005-04-17

This is the first sushi book I bought after a friend tought my seven year old and friends to make it during a Japan day at school, using canned tuna. He and his friends liked it (to my surprise) and so I decided to look for a cookbook so I could try it at home. I think it is an excellent beginners book. I've had no failures. It is not true that you need a plethora of utensils to get started. All I use is the bamboo rolling mat, I happen to have a rice paddle although I don't always use it. In my opinion, the only essential items are the rolling mat and of course the ingredients, however the book is very flexible with the variety of ingredients, not all typically Japanese. Again, I think this is a very good starter book. I am now looking for a more advanced book with greater variety.

5 out of 5 stars Shopping suggestion.......2003-09-08

I don't have this book yet, but I do have a word of advice for sushi-makers: there is a chain of Japanese supermarkets in the US called Mitsuwa. They are on the west coast & in Chicago, and may be in other places as well. They have EVERYTHING; it's almost more like a mall than just a supermarket. Frozen foods, fresh produce, packaged foods, a special pickle department, and a seafood department. Definitely NOT inexpensive seafood, but much of it is specifically meant for sushi/sashimi and is marked as such. And even if you're not a sushi maker--go. The place is an adventure!

3 out of 5 stars It's ok.......2002-10-03

I thought it would be a little easier then it presents it's self to be, You need a ton of supplies before really going anyware with this book, so it adds up. But besides that the receipes are great.

2 out of 5 stars Didn't really care for it.......2002-07-27

Yes, it is easy. But it was too easy to the point it was just lacking any interest to me at all.
The Sushi Made Easy Book & Kit
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    The Sushi Made Easy Book & Kit

    Manufacturer: Sterling Publishing
    ProductGroup: Book
    Binding: Paperback
    ASIN: 1597952559

    Product Description

    Enjoy sushi in your own home! This ingenious kit includes everything you need to create a flavorful sushi meal, with two bamboo rolling mats, 1 wooden rice paddle, four sets of bamboo chopsticks, and a full-color, step-by-step cookbook stuffed with delicious recipes and illustrated preparation techniques. Youll learn to make such mouthwatering recipes as: Sushi rolls, Nigiri-Sushi, Rice and miso soup, and much more. Youll savor every bite! 1. Sushi Made Easy , 1999 Format: 79 page softcover book ISBN: 1859744362 2. 2-8 1/4" x 9 1/2" Bamboo Rolling Mat 3. 9 1/4" Wooden Rice Paddle 4. 4 Sets of 9 1/2" Bamboo Chopsticks
    Sushi: Easy Recipes for Making Sushi at Home
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      Sushi: Easy Recipes for Making Sushi at Home
      Emi Kazuko , Fiona Smith , and Elsa Petersen-Schepelern
      Manufacturer: Ryland Peters & Small
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      Healthy, delicious, modern - everyone loves sushi. And it's not hard to make yourself. It's delicious as a quick snack, part of a more substantial dinner, or easy party food. Ami Kazuko, Fiona Smith, and Elsa Petersen-Schepelern explain how to cook sushi rice and start with simple rolled sushi using classic ingredients such as cucumber or tuna. There are also recipes for sashimi and miso soups, plus great accompaniments.
      Quick & Easy Sushi Cookbook
      Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
      • Very Worthwhile!
      • Good For Learning how to cut and recognize fish
      Quick & Easy Sushi Cookbook
      Heihachiro Tohyama , and Yukiko Moriyama
      Manufacturer: Japan Publications Trading
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      Binding: Paperback

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      ASIN: 4889960929

      Book Description

      The ideal first book for learning to make the various styles of traditional and authentic sushi.

      Customer Reviews:

      5 out of 5 stars Very Worthwhile!.......2007-05-23

      I bought this book in a bookshop here in Tokyo actually after reading through it, I worked in Japanese resturants both in Australia and Japan for about 4 years and after making a change in my line of work I wanted a reference book on some of the areas that I didn't get time to learn in full. I'd made Sushi professionally but wasn't doing it long enough to rotate through all of the different areas of prep

      There are very good step by step picture (glossy photos) instructions for how to cut fish and prepare different types of fish plus there are some great novelty chirashi items for kids too.

      The proof in the pudding for me though was the part on Shari (sushi rice), if that more fundumental part isn't good then it calls the quality of the whole book into question. It was certainly not lacking!

      In the end, with the sushi rice in this book so good the fact that there are lots of imaginative recipes in here that you might get in a japanese home but never in a resturant on top of the standard stuff really makes this book worth while. All the fundamentals are here, plus a lot of fun stuff so you get to involve yourself to a level that suits you.

      5 out of 5 stars Good For Learning how to cut and recognize fish .......2007-02-22

      Great details on how to slice the parts of the fish and how to distinguish fish.
      Sushi Made Easy Book & Kit
      Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
      • Good for beginners
      • Good product, crappy shipping and packaging
      • pretty good, pretty basic
      • Not a bad book
      • Insert sigh of relief here.
      Sushi Made Easy Book & Kit
      Kumfoo Wong
      Manufacturer: Main Street
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      Binding: Paperback

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      ASIN: 1402701462

      Book Description

      More than 300,000 Sushi kits sold!

      “A bright, easy little volume...even shows how to set a proper Japanese table. Use the book for its techniques.”—The New York Times

      A beautiful aesthetic experience; sensuous, tactile color photographs on almost every page.”—Publishers Weekly

      All you need except the fish! Making sushi is a creative act of beautifully presenting colors, textures, subtle flavors, and unmatched sensations. Now you can become that “painter on the plate,” a sushi chef who creates dishes that taste and look magnificent. From the best book that teaches you the culinary art to the equipment needed to carry it out, this kit has everything. Start with Sushi Made Easy, the guide that not only reveals how to make a feast, it is a feast for the eyes. Exquisite line drawings and luscious photography show in detail how to prepare each perfect piece of sushi, such as nigiri-sushi out of fish and vinegared rice, thick futomaki, a battleship wrap stuffed with roe, inside-out rolls, and soups. There’s even advice on setting an eye-catching table.

      Plus:
      • 4 pair of bamboo chopsticks to eat your delicacies
      • 2 bamboo Sushi preparation mats (8-1/4" x 9-1/2")
      • 1 bamboo rice paddle

      Customer Reviews:

      4 out of 5 stars Good for beginners.......2006-12-01

      This book does a pretty good job at helping the inexperinced sushi chef, particularly with getting the rice correct. I agree with the other reviewer - it would have been nice to know more about making eel. Another downside is the poor illustrations and limited instructions for actually forming the rolls, but other than that I would recommend it for someone starting out because it comes with the basic tools you need. It is a good kit, especially for the price.

      4 out of 5 stars Good product, crappy shipping and packaging.......2006-06-29

      Great book with good accessories for the $$. But the package it was all kept in was severly dented to the point where I had to re-package it before I gave it as a gift. Be aware that may not be in the best shape to send to someone directly.

      4 out of 5 stars pretty good, pretty basic.......2004-05-22

      If you were looking for a book with specific recipes, this is not the book. Everything in this book is presented very flexibly, with only a mere suggestion list after the basic preparation of things. There are pros and its cons to this because you know the basics and you can be really creative and you know where you can be really creative. The bad thing is, you would like to have more specific recipes for things that you find in the restaurant such as California Roll and Crunchy Roll, which, granted, are western modifications, but still.

      The other complaint is that when they talk about making miso soup all the pictures show wakame seaweed in the soup, but no where in that section (or anywhere in the book for that matter) does it say that wakame can also be put in the miso soup. I had to do some real creative investigation just to find out what that green stuff was.

      PS. I bought this book because it was cheaper than any other sushi cookbook I found at the store AND it comes with the KIT part.

      4 out of 5 stars Not a bad book.......2003-05-11

      ...My main reason for purchasing this book are the accessories that come with it. When I initially read through it I found it to be somewhat disorganized. But for the price you pay, and all that comes with the package, it's a good deal.

      5 out of 5 stars Insert sigh of relief here........2002-08-12

      I love sushi, and I love this book. It answered all but one of the questions I've ever had about sushi, quickly, concisely, and elegantly.

      The one thing I would have liked it to contain would be a recipe and cooking instructions for Eel. (Unagi) (Though there are instructions for the preparation of Prawn (Ebi) for sushi.)

      Most importantly the authors tell you what to look for when buying your fish and how to cut it.

      Everything else you need to know is here; How to prepare the rice, how to make regular and inside out rolls, how to form nigiri sushi, how to make the rice and seaweed "battle ship" for roe sushi, directions for making Tamago (a rolled sweet omelette that can either be used as a filling/topping or as a replacement for rice in some styles of nigiri sushi). There's a section on soups, and making your own ginger.

      And while I've been eating and attempting to make sushi for quite some time now, I found the Author's suggestions on how to serve and eat sushi interesting and informative.

      If you get the book and kit (And why not, at the time I'm writing this, Amazon is offering the kit at the same price as the book alone.) you'll also get some basic sushi paraphernalia.

      2 Bamboo mats for rolling your Maki
      1 Rice paddle
      4 Pairs of normal sized chopsticks

      Which is a nice addition, because just about every other tool you would need to make sushi is probably already in your kitchen. The tools provided might be difficult to get if you don't live in an area where there isn't an asian market, or a market with a good sized asian section near you.

      Of course, once you get the book that's not much of a problem since the back of the book lists contact information for markets and mail order vendors. (Several web sites and physical locations through out the US.)
      Party Food Made Easy: Canapes*Tapas*Fondues*Sushi
      Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
      • Nice pictures, but who edited this?
      Party Food Made Easy: Canapes*Tapas*Fondues*Sushi
      Abigail Brown , Melissa Webb , Tomas Garcia , and Michele Gomes
      Manufacturer: New Holland
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      Binding: Paperback

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      ASIN: 1845373162

      Book Description

      Whether it’s a casual get-together over spicy cheese fondue or a celebration featuring caviar, these 150 recipes fill the bill to perfection—offering an assortment of tapas, sushi, canapés, and fondues suitable for all occasions. Each chapter includes a useful section on equipment and key ingredients, plus tips on presentation and garnishes.

      Customer Reviews:

      3 out of 5 stars Nice pictures, but who edited this?.......2006-09-28

      This strikes me as being a very hastily thrown together book. I recommend it for the pictures, and some of the ideas are good. However, it's definitely not a literary masterpiece. Plenty of grammatical errors, some spelling mistakes- in some cases the recipes won't even work or don't make sense as written. If you're already an accomplished cook, this book has some nice ideas for party food, but stay away if you're not already comfortable around the kitchen.

      Having said all that, I will grant that this book has gorgeous pictures.
      Sushi Made Easy
      Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
      • Dated but workable
      • A waste of time and money
      • Become a sushi chef overnight!
      • It`s an excelent book to learn to make sushi
      • Well balanced, covering basic steps. Good starter book.
      Sushi Made Easy
      Nobuko Tsuda
      Manufacturer: Weatherhill
      ProductGroup: Book
      Binding: Paperback

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      ASIN: 0834801736
      Release Date: 1982-08-01

      Book Description

      Visually appealing, flavorful, and nutritious sushi has long been one of the most popular foods of Japan and is now a favorite of epicures around the world. Here, the ingredients and utensils for making sushi are introduced and the principles of sushi-making explained through thirty-six recipes illustrated with drawings and sixteen pages of color photographs. Included are instructions for dressing and filleting twenty-one kinds of fish, serving suggestions, and recipes for soups to complete an authentic sushi meal.

      Customer Reviews:

      4 out of 5 stars Dated but workable.......2002-08-01

      The big problem with this book is that it was written in 1982, and American sushi culture has had its own evolutionary path since then. The profusion of maki that dominates American sushi isn't here, which is fine, but it also doesn't mention the omnipresent California roll.

      That said, it's an excellent book, and I have no doubt that with this book and a few months of intensive practice anyone can become a passable sushi chef. The ingredients are easier to find now than they were, and this book also provides a number of forms of sushi that simply don't get seen much in American sushi bars. You will need other references for some of the esoterica, but this book will have you up and running on the basics quickly, and even if you so choose making some very interesting items that you don't see every day.

      1 out of 5 stars A waste of time and money.......2000-08-29

      "SUSHI MADE EASY" by Nobuko Tsuda is a complete was a complete waste of time and money for myself. I was going to the shops to buy a new book to help make sushi for my son's school when I came across this book. As it was highly recommended, I felt obliged to purchase it. I wish that I had not done so. It was not helpful and the ingredients were either hard to find or extremely expensive. To anyone that is thinking about buying this book, I say to you, "DON'T!" Buy another one. LOVE JOANNE BURKE (karen_mcvea@hotmail.com). Bye everybody! P.S. Don't you just love the new Daphne & Celeste song - "U.G.L.Y."???

      4 out of 5 stars Become a sushi chef overnight!.......2000-01-19

      This is an excellent beginner's book for sushi lovers. Includes beautiful color photos to show the art of presentation and the beauty of the cuisine. It could have included pronuciation tips for some of the words, and the technique described for making nori rolls was awkward (I place strips of filling on rice closer to the center), but otherwise I highly recommend this book.

      5 out of 5 stars It`s an excelent book to learn to make sushi.......1998-06-23

      It's a detailed book to make diferent sushi. I'm proud to buy this book, it's realy good and my friends are hope to learn a new test of it.

      4 out of 5 stars Well balanced, covering basic steps. Good starter book........1998-01-27

      This book takes a well balanced approach that is geared toward the novice. I found the sections on equipment and ingredients to be very good overviews on these topics. Assembly instructions were pretty good, and frankly, the pictures go a long way toward showing you what the end result will / should look like. Other books I looked at contained more history and shopping tips than I wanted. The key to success with sushi is experiment!
      Vegetarian Sushi Made Easy
      Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
      • If you love sushi.......
      • food for the eye ... an inspiration
      • Visually stunning...but tasteless!
      • The most creative sushi book I've seen
      • Vegetarian Sushi Made Easy
      Vegetarian Sushi Made Easy
      Hiroko Fukuhara
      Manufacturer: Weatherhill
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      ASIN: 0834804662
      Release Date: 1999-05-01

      Book Description

      Vegetarian Sushi Made Easy introduces over 40 recipes for delicious, easy-to-prepare sushi made with vegetables instead of raw fish. The authors have grouped the recipes into finger sushi with vegetable toppings, sushi rolls, sushi balls, stuffed sushi pockets, tossed sushi, and sushi cakes. Many of these are made with sushi rice in several colors—white, pink, yellow, and even green—so they are not only delicious to eat, but also beautiful to look at. Vegetarian Sushi Made Easy is the perfect introduction for all cooks, both amateur and experienced, to the wide world of healthy, delicious sushi.

      Customer Reviews:

      5 out of 5 stars If you love sushi..............2007-03-09

      You will love this book. If you are a vegetarian and love sushi then this book will send you straight to sushi heaven! Great pictures and easy to understand. You will be on your way to creating beautiful tasty sushi in no time at all.

      3 out of 5 stars food for the eye ... an inspiration.......2001-06-10

      If one skims this book, one is impressed by the creativity and the beauty of the various sushi recipes. The recipes depend upon technique in rolling to create flowers, yin-yang symbols, cones, barber cones ... There are some of these designs based upon dyed rice, ineatible leaves, or exotic serving pieces - all techniques opposed to my cooking style. These recipes also depend upon ingredients not common in an American kitchen e.g. black beans, soy beans, red soy beans, fresh green soy beans all required for a single recipe. The problem becomes one of obtaining the necessary ingredients in small quantities or how to use the remainder if bought in normally available quantities.

      However, if you approach this cookbook not in terms of actual recipes but for inspiration, this is an excellent book - it allows one to move far beyond avacado rolls, cucumber rolls, Seattle rolls, California rolls i.e. the mainstays of sushi beyond the raw fish sushi. It has wonderful photos of presentation possibilities - food as pleasing to the eye as to the palate. It provides ideas for using Asian vegetables in small quantities; you learn if you like the taste and texture before betting a meal on it. It's only flaw - you're left on your own for dipping sauces and other condiments - a flaw that allows one to search for pickling recipes or even chutney/salsa recipes to add some flavorful "zing" to the meal.

      3 out of 5 stars Visually stunning...but tasteless!.......2001-01-30

      This book is visually stunning, with some of the most inventive sushi I've ever encountered: nigiri colorfully topped with slices of carrot and lotus root tied together with a green stem; sushi rolls cut to reveal a pattern of plum blossoms, hearts, roses, or a checkerboard; a cute sushi ball topped with a shiitake mushroom cap that resembles an Oriental hat; others wound with shreds of vegetables to look like multicolor silk balls. There's sushi presented in a pumpkin cup, several varieties of stuffed tofu sushi, a sushi-and-vegetable "pizza," sushi salads, and even fruit sushi. Each recipe is illustrated with a mouth-watering full-page color photo, and the extremely clear directions feature rolling or assembly diagrams. I pounced on this book not only for its visual artistry and as Japanese Food Host at BellaOnline, but to make special vegetarian treats for my vegan son and his friends.

      Yet, there's a central problem with this book. All the recipes I tested are virtually tasteless!

      I'm sorry, but plain sushi rice topped with a slice of carrot boiled in saltwater does not make it in my culinary estimation. Nor do the beautiful sushi rolls that consist solely of rice wrapped in nori-however eye-appealing they are-or the assortment of boiled, saltless beans served over brown rice! And grapefruit cup sushi made of okra, carrot, cucumber, cherry tomatoes, and grapefruit sections tossed with rice and stuffed into a grapefruit half? Yuck!

      Even the basic rice recipes are peculiar: the one for white sushi rice calls for seasoning the rice with apple cider vinegar and honey instead of a standard sushi-su made from rice vinegar and sugar. A brown rice version uses salty plum vinegar and mirin. I've been trying to figure out if this book is meant to embrace Zen macrobiotic diet principles. But no, then honey wouldn't be called for. Also, for reasons unknown, the authors do not even mention wasabi in the book. Likewise, soy sauce is never suggested as a dipping sauce to accompany the sushi recipes. (Indeed, there's little soy sauce used throughout the book, and then almost exclusively to cook shiitake mushrooms or tofu pockets). And, despite several attempts, my sushi rice seasoned with plum vinegar did not turn out a bright pink as is shown in the book-or even pale pink. The authors might be using a different brand of plum vinegar than what's available in my area, but nowhere was that brand specified.

      Of course, one can always add beet juice or food coloring to rice to achieve that lovely pink shade, or incorporate Japanese pickles to liven up the flavors of fillings, or add a smear of wasabi, or serve the sushi with a wasabi and soy sauce dip. But these ideas are not brought out in the book.

      If you intend to use this book as inspiration and let your imagination soar, then this may be a great resource for you. However, if you are the kind of cook who needs to follow recipes exactly, or are seeking to re-create a Japanese restaurant taste experience, you are apt to be sorely disappointed with the results of the recipes in this book. Caveat emptor!

      5 out of 5 stars The most creative sushi book I've seen.......2001-01-07

      I purchased this book on a whim, wondering, "What does one do with vegetarian sushi?" The answer to that question might be, "What CAN'T one do?" I have read more than 4 books on making sushi, several of which were very favorably reviewed. Those were traditional sushi,containing fish. "Vegetarian Sushi Made Easy" incorporates many artistic possibilties. This book provides simple, step-by-step instructions on making sushi in a variety of designs. One feature that I've not seen in other books is the use of colored rice to add a new dimension of possibilities. Another lovely feature is mounds of rice "wrapped" in thin strips of vegetable...very colorful. There are directions for sushi rolls, mounds, cakes, "pizzas", stuffed tofu pockets, nori stuffed and cut open to look like figs (the fruit), and sushi rolled to incorporate designs such as hearts, ladybugs, flowers, a "free form" sushi presented much like a composed salad, and others. I took this book to work with me and showed it to a number of people. Even those who swore that they would never try sushi were captivated by the book and liked the idea of sushi sans fish. The directions are the most clearly written that I've seen so far, and EVERY design has a full-page color photograph followed by directions. I highly recommend this book to those interested in learning to make sushi. It is technically and artistically stunning.

      4 out of 5 stars Vegetarian Sushi Made Easy.......2000-02-03

      I have been waiting for a book like this for years! I find Japanese food intriguing but was unsure as a vegetarian where to start looking for meatless alternatives for sushi. Although some of it is involved and some of the ingrediants are difficult to come by if you are not within relative distance to an asian market,so I would recommend this as an excellent book for special occasions and holidays.

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