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 eighty-five recipes that combine sushi rice with ingredients ranging from its time-honored partners to unexpectedly delicious ingredients-such as Thai fish sauce, sun-dried tomatoes, cooked meats like roast beef or chicken and French ratatouille-that infuse Japanese sushi with an unexpected and international flair. Sushi fans will love Umemura's traditional instructions for making Inside-Out Rolls, Nigiri Sushi, Hand Rolls, and Inari Sushi, and her exciting and innovative recipes for Thai Shrimp Sushi Parcels, Taco Sushi, and Korean Kimchi Sushi Rolls.

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 Umemura's fun and easy-to-make inventions such as ball or pizza sushi, The Sushi Lover's Cookbook is the one sushi cookbook fanatics need to guide them to sushi nirvana.

Photographs by: Noboru Murata