Of Sushi and Sheva Brochos
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lethargic_manI've been invited to Sheva Brochos before, but today was the first time I've ever been requisitioned for one - several people dropped out due to illness, and I was needed to make up the minyan. It was hosted by my brother and sister-in-law, and the food consisted entirely of sushi and its accompaniments, deftly prepared by my brother (impressing the hell out of the rest of us).
Now the first time I'd ever had sushi before was a week beforehand, at the kiddush at Beth Shalom in Cambridge, where,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rysmiel will no doubt be disappointed to know, I'd not been particlarly impressed with it. This, however, was most tasty, and I helped myself to seconds.
Now, normally I'm reticent to eat something if I don't know what it is, but here I was guaranteed that everything was kosher, so I didn't have anything to worry about. What I'd like to know, though, is why thechreyn wasabi was green, when the obviously correct colour for horseradish to be is purple white. I could wish I'd realised what it was in advance. :o)
Though we ate with chopsticks (not being completegaijin barbarians), the tunes for benching and the Sheva Brochos afterwards were the standard Ashkenazi ones, though. (Oh, all right, along with the normal "Match of the Day" and "Tetris" themes...) But then if they'd been Japanese tunes, I suppose no one would have known them, and no one would have been able to join in. :o)
Now the first time I'd ever had sushi before was a week beforehand, at the kiddush at Beth Shalom in Cambridge, where,
rysmiel will no doubt be disappointed to know, I'd not been particlarly impressed with it. This, however, was most tasty, and I helped myself to seconds.Now, normally I'm reticent to eat something if I don't know what it is, but here I was guaranteed that everything was kosher, so I didn't have anything to worry about. What I'd like to know, though, is why the
Though we ate with chopsticks (not being complete
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Date: 2004-12-19 11:55 pm (UTC)I'm still bemused by the rarity of sushi (good or bad!) in England.
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Date: 2004-12-20 03:46 pm (UTC)That is indeed impressive. There are sushi-making courses about fifteen minutes' walk from where we live, if the work colleague of mine who took them is right in the directions he gave; one of these years.
Now the first time I'd ever had sushi before was a week beforehand, at the kiddush at Beth Shalom in Cambridge, where, rysmiel will no doubt be disappointed to know, I'd not been particlarly impressed with it. This, however, was most tasty, and I helped myself to seconds.
Mwahaha ! Mwahahaha !
Now, normally I'm reticent to eat something if I don't know what it is, but here I was guaranteed that everything was kosher, so I didn't have anything to worry about.
well, salmon and tuna are at least instantly recognisable colours. And were you to be consuming sushi in my presence, I could at least indicate what-all was Osteichthyes*, which from what
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What I'd like to know, though, is why the wasabi was green, when the obviously correct colour for horseradish to be is purple white. I could wish I'd realised what it was in advance.
That sounds like it could have been very unfortunate. Though not so unfortunate as mistaking a left-over bit of wasabi for green tea icecream while having one's dessert after sushi.
Though we ate with chopsticks (not being complete gaijin barbarians), the tunes for benching and the Sheva Brochos afterwards were the standard Ashkenazi ones, though. (Oh, all right, along with the normal "Match of the Day" and "Tetris" themes...)
How delightfully multicultural.
* I know, this taxon has been deprecated.
**Freshwater eel [unagi] anyway. I do not believe sea eel has the scale-related uncertainty, but then, I've only ever seen it on offer in Minneapolis. Why it should be easier to get there than Montreal, considering relative distance of the sea, is beyond me.
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Date: 2004-12-20 08:29 pm (UTC)Why were they hosting a Sheva Brachot when they got married years ago? Isn't it normally either the couple or their parents who host the event?
Now the first time I'd ever had sushi before was a week beforehand, at the kiddush at Beth Shalom in Cambridge, where,
I thought I explained this already: that wasn't sushi, that was Californian sushi. And it wasn't even Californian sushi with a minuscule bit of fish in it, it was vegetarian Californian sushi.
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Date: 2004-12-20 09:17 pm (UTC)And friends of the couple. If you're going to have up to seven Sheva Brochos, you're going to run out of immediate family pretty soon. (I've not heard of the couple hosting Sheva Brochos either, unless you count the wedding itself.)
I thought I explained this already: that wasn't sushi, that was Californian sushi.
Yes, but that's what sushi means to me, as in what I've see served as sushi.
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Date: 2004-12-20 09:39 pm (UTC)I'm not sure whether I can actually get the creepy/chilly shudder at the thought of calling such a thing sushi down in words.
[ "minuscule", it occurs to me, is one of those rare words to which I have become so habituated to the mis-spelling that the correct usage will always feel wrong, so I just avoid it. ]
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