10. Learn to make sushi

I have completed my first 30 before 30 item!  Lately, I have been really into cooking - mostly seafood and meat so I wanted to be able to do something a little out of my comfort zone.  I headed to the Asian market on 82nd and after much confusion (most items are not in English), I had all the ingredients needed to make sushi from scratch: seaweed, rice, seasame seeds, bamboo mat, etc.  In the past, I must admit that any rice I cooked, it was the 90 second kind that you can microwave.  But not this time, I even made my own sushi rice.  After four taste testers, one who had never had sushi before, I can say this was a success.  Here are the pictures of the process: