You don’t even have to cook it.
Sounds like the easiest dish ever to make?
Not exactly.
“We spent the first 25 minutes just talking about which fish we should buy and can be made into sushi from the market,” says Evelyn Teploff-Mugii, one of three American women who founded the Kanazawa-based company, The Art of Travel.
Teploff-Mugii is recalling a conversation she had with Kanazawa sushi chef Masaki Teranishi.
Teploff-Mugii’s company focuses on offering private tours around Japan that include shopping at a fish market and learning how to make sushi in a private kitchen.
“Every part of sushi-making is very deep in context and an art for sushi chefs,” she says.
Making sushi is no easy chore.
Donning a full Shinto sushi outfit when at work, chef Teranishi has been a sushi chef for 30 years.
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“As he said, just go ahead and stuff it.”
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Kanazawa Sushi Supreme Tour is conducted by The Art of Travel.
Kanazawa Tamazushi Souhonten (Flagship), 2-21-19, Katamachi, Kanazawa, Ishikawa; +81 76-221-2644
Kanazawa Tamazushi, Kanazawa New Grand Hotel B1F, 4-1, Minami-cho, Kanazawa, Ishikawa; +81 76-233-0911
Kanazawa Tamazushi, Korinbo Daiwa, 1-1-1, Korinbo, Kanazawa, Ishikawa; +81 76-220-1346
Kanazawa Tamazushi Keibajyonaiten, A 549-1, Hattamachi, Kanazawa, Ishikawa; +81 76-258-5568
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