{"id":5291,"date":"2005-11-12T21:44:06","date_gmt":"2005-11-13T02:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/japan\/?p=145"},"modified":"2014-08-30T14:06:47","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T14:06:47","slug":"israeli-sushi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/2005\/11\/israeli-sushi\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Sushi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese food is, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.h-net.msu.edu\/reviews\/showrev.cgi?path=13620997895879\">as I&#8217;ve said before<\/a>, one of the great contributions to world food culture. But nothing remains &#8220;pure,&#8221; even if it was in some sense pure to begin with. Our favorite sushi place here in Hilo features lots of avocado-filled futomaki, <i>pok\u00e9<\/i> (marinated sashimi, basically, available in a wide variety of styles and flavors, and destined to become Hawai&#8217;i&#8217;s most distinctive contribution to world food) as a side dish and in sushi (the rice-side-out pok\u00e9 sushi rolled in crushed macadamia nuts is my wife&#8217;s top pick) and one of my personal favorites is the Green Bay roll, with smoked salmon, cream cheese and asparagus. <\/p>\n<p>Nothing brings out creativity like food. And nothing drives creativity in food like the restaraunt market, in which responding to local tastes frequently trumps purity of spirit or style (though &#8220;purity&#8221; is often a valuable market niche as well). So it was with little surprise that I learned that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/hasen\/pages\/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=644381&#038;contrassID=2&#038;subContrassID=15&#038;sbSubContrassID=0&#038;listSrc=Y\">Israeli sushi<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/headheeb.blogmosis.com\/archives\/030576.html\">gracious half-bow to Jonathan Edelstein<\/a>] is moving in its own directions. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese food is, as I&#8217;ve said before, one of the great contributions to world food culture. But nothing remains &#8220;pure,&#8221; even if it was in some sense pure to begin with. Our favorite sushi place here in Hilo features lots of avocado-filled futomaki, pok\u00e9 (marinated sashimi, basically, available in a wide variety of styles and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[173,119,123,126,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural","category-english","category-food","category-general","category-japan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9yoH3-1nl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5647,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5291\/revisions\/5647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}