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 Sushi: Taste and Techniques
ASIN: 0789489163
Customer's Rating: 5
Summary: AWESOME.
Comments: This book is maybe too much for the beginning sushi lover (more pun than truth), but certainly a neccessary choice for the avid connisseur. Not only are the pictures, recipes and descriptions astounding, but they offer some insight into the lesser discussed topics, such as: how to serve up Octopus fresh, or how to cut your fresh fish for sushi. DIFFERENT kinds of fish - flat fish, makrel, tuna, it's all in here.
I have a good collection of sushi books, and this by far outranks them all. I first began to appreciate sushi in the mid 80's, began making it for myself in the 90's and these days I fine tune my interest. I highly recommend this book. If you are unsure, teeter-tottering, or considering getting this as a gift for someone else - doubt no more. This baby rocks. ;)
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 Sushi (Essential Kitchen Series)
ASIN: 962593460X
Customer's Rating: 4
Summary: An excellent, gorgeous book
Comments: (should be 4 and 1/2 stars) As someone who is already familiar with the basics of preparing sushi at home, I found this book to be an absolute delight! A small section is devoted to tools, ingredients, rice, selecting and preparing fish, many recipes for sushi and sashimi, and even soup! I was hoping that green tea, sake and edamame would be discussed, but nonetheless this book is not a disappointment. The author, a Sydney sushi chef, explains that a sushi apprentice learns to be a chef by carefully watching his master work, and then repeatedly experimenting himself. A sushi apprenticeship in Japan lasts seven years. Knowing this, it makes sense that one cannot expect to find in any one book everything you need to know to duplicate the sushi at your favorite bar. With this book, however, you can create delicious sushi your own way at home. I recommend it to people at all levels of home sushi preparation, or even sushi connoiseurs who do not prepare it themselves at home, as it also makes a great coffee table book. Vegetarians will be happy with this book as well, there are many wonderful vegetable nigiri-zushi and maki-zushi recipes in this book, and instructions on how to make vegetarian dashi. And while I can't promise that this book will make your child anxious to try sushi, my 2 year old and I looked at this book together, then made some sushi, and she ate every bite on her plate. "Yummy Zushi!" she exclaimed. Indeed it is.
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 Encyclopedia of Sushi Rolls
ASIN: 4889960767
Customer's Rating: 5
Summary: Fantastic sushi book
Comments: I actually bought this for my mom for mother's day - she loves making sushi rolls but until now just did it based on what she'd had at restaurants. She's a great cook and certainly can improvise but this cookbook has opened her up to a whole new set of ideas and recipes to mess around with. It has great pictures, instructions are clear, and it's a lot of fun. Highly recommend this cookbook! One of the best we've come across.
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 Sushi Made Easy
ASIN: 1402701462
Customer's Rating: 5
Summary: Insert sigh of relief here.
Comments: 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.)
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 The Great Sushi and Sashimi Cookbook
ASIN: 1552852342
Customer's Rating: 3
Summary: Not for Beginners
Comments: Takahasi's cookbook is great, tasty, and the food is to die for. If you've the means, that is. The sad thing about this cookbook is that there's alot of tasty stuff, and all the ingredients are hard to come by. Plus, if you've never made sushi before, you're in for a wild ride.
I only wish it came with a bamboo roll mat. My kitchen would be much cleaner that way.
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 The Book of Sushi
ASIN: 0870118668
Customer's Rating: 5
Summary: The Joy of Sushi!
Comments: This book is true fun to read. Pictures are spare, elegant, and profuse; for a good ways in the middle of the book, every other page is a full-color photo designed to remind you how various forms of sushi relate to the passing of the seasons.
The text is clear - very readable - and the author's love for the history, tradition and eating of sushi shines through. Tips on what to order don't feel like prescriptions so much as suggestions; I especially appreciated the explanation of which types of fish are good during different parts of the year. The book is crammed with practical information like this - Omae points out that maki rolls should be eaten first, not because of some obscure protocol, but because the seaweed-paper wrapper may not hold up as moisture soaks into it. And it may sound obvious in retrospect, but I'd never actually realized that you're not supposed to dip the rice part of nigiri-zushi into the soy sauce; rather, you hold it 'upside down' and just wet the fish.
This book will make you want to go out and eat more sushi, and if you're a thoughtful person like me, all that good information will probably enhance the experience. 5 stars!
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 Sushi for Parties: Maki-Zushi and Nigiri-Zushi
ASIN: 0870409565
Customer's Rating: 5
Summary: Creative colorful tasty sushi ideas!
Comments: Amazingly colorful and decorative sushi ideas that are fun for parties and family gatherings. Full color photos telling you how to make the seasoned sushi rice then how to create the fancy sushi rolls. There are ideas for almost every holiday that you can do for your family such as Santa Claus sushi. There are ideas for the different seasons spring, summer, winter, fall. Lots of cute ideas for kids such as the Panda-Maki. Well worth the money to buy this book I highly recommend it! :)
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 The Sushi Cookbook: A Step-By-Step Guide to This Popular Japanese Food
ASIN: 1568363001
Customer's Rating: 5
Summary: Overall, a great sushi starter book.
Comments: A very easy to follow book with beautiful step-by-step colorpics. Includes how to buy and prepare sushi, including essentialkitchen equipment and ingredients (for finger sushi, sushi rolls, miso soup, etc.) ...
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 Vegetarian Sushi Made Easy
ASIN: 0834804662
Customer's Rating: 3
Summary: food for the eye ... an inspiration
Comments: 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.
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