As I eat and write about sushi I wonder why. Why so many things. Sushi was pretty nasty stuff in centuries past, but started getting really good in the nineteenth century. Then in the 1960′s the American sushi invasion began – a bittersweet turning point for some, in the following decades it would transform sushi [...]

It’s time to take back our beloved cuisine from those who would bastardize it and degrade it through mindless commercialization. 2012 is our chance to start with a clean slate – let’s clean up the sushi scene, by instituting some tough new rules. Rules that are needed to reign in the undisciplined sushi servers out [...]

My top ten meals in sushi bars in 2011 – seems like a suitable way to remind myself how fortunate I’ve been. Not quite the list I would have guessed at the beginning of 2011 either. The one here that took place in January, the dinner at Honmono Sushi in Thonglor, was a very strange [...]

Time for a small rant about some of the disgusting fare that passes for sushi maki these days. Don’t get me wrong, some sushi rolls are wonderful, but some people have gotten totally out of control. We’re going to shed some light on these sushi roll transgressions, and hopefully prevent these kinds of things from [...]

Here’s how Sushi Pro scored it this year in South FL. We hear a lot of kvetching about how Florida doesn’t have good sushi, but it just ain’t so. There are enough good sushi joints to do a top twenty list, perhaps next year we will. 10. Asahi in South Miami – the seafood is [...]