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Article: Stars of sushi: everybody has a favorite sushi place, but who makes Sarasota's very best? We stage a Gulf-front tasting to settle the question.
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- Sarasota Magazine
- Article date:
- April 1, 2007
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It's hard to imagine that not that long ago, most of us would have shuddered at the idea of eating raw fish. Now you can find sushi even in supermarkets, and as Americans have embraced this Japanese tradition, we've made it our own, creating variations like the foie gras and tenderloin sushi that's the rage at one San Francisco hotspot. (Some young Japanese chefs are coming to the United States for precisely that kind of creative freedom; the Japanese are purists about their sushi, and it can take years for a novice chef in Japan to progress beyond the art of making the rice.)
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Sarasota's appetite for sushi in all its variations ...