Ever wondered how the Soviet man or woman in the kitchen would have cooked sushi? Well, wonder no more:

Don’t ask me why, but we decided to try our hands at making sushi. We were planning to use salmon and some other nice things. After giving a lot of thought to the issues raised above, though, it occurred to us that, not so long ago, the country we live in was still a part of the Soviet Union. Not only did the USSR have a rich culinary tradition, but one that remains far more relevant to us than Japanese culture or any other Far Eastern refinements. So we settled on a number of guiding principles:

1. Soviet Man wouldn’t have used a filler like rice as a main ingredient. Sure, Soviet Man ate bread or kasha when there wasn’t much of anything else, but he certainly didn’t wrap kasha around his food. [...]

4. Soviet Man would not have used chopsticks.

Thanks to Michelle (formerly known as Blogchik) for translating Egor Trubnikov’s original article from Russian.

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