The Sushi Lover’’s Cookbook: Easy to Prepare Sushi for Every Occasion

Make classic sushi along with more artful and exotic rolls with this illustrated sushi cookbook.

In this sushi making book, Japanese cooking expert Yumi Umemura offers 85 easy recipes combining sushi rice--the key to delicious sushi--with ingredients ranging from time-honored favorites to non-traditional ingredients--such as Thai fish sauce, sun-dried tomatoes, French ratatouille, cooked meats like roast beef or chicken and smoked salmon. Many recipes reflect sushi’s worldwide popularity--incorporating the diverse tastes.

Sushi Recipes include:

• Seared Tataki Beef Sushi
• Tempura Sushi
• Four Color Rolls
• Two-Cheese Tuna Salad Rolls
• Simple Mushroom and Chicken Sushi Rice
• Poached Egg Sushi Rice Salad
• Prosciutto Rolls
• Tuna Tartare Gunkan Sushi
• Avocado Sesame Rolls
• Thai Shrimp Sushi Parcels
• Korean Kimchi Sushi Rolls

Whether making the classic thick rolls, thin rolls, or experimenting with one of the author’s fun and easy-to-make inventions such as pizza sushi, The Sushi Lover’s Cookbook will guide you to sushi nirvana.

Yumi Umemura is an expert chef in a variety of foods and is the author or translator of a number of cookbooks. She teaches cooking and creative table-setting in Tokyo and around the world. She has demonstrated recipes on Japanese television and is a frequent contributor to several Japanese publications.

Photographer Noboru Murata has had a career of more than thirty years as an advertising photographer. His publications include The Japanese House, Japan Style and Japanese Gardens, all published by Tuttle Publishing.