Sushi for Beginners

Thursday: Chanel cap-toe flats

I love kitsch and I’m not afraid to admit it. I mean, I know in my heart that one of these days I will have to get rid of all those bobblehead dolls and other NBA memorabilia that I’ve been collecting all these years. This may sound shocking, I realize, coming from a fashionista, but I think it’s all OCD-related hunting and gathering.

In any case, a few months ago I was walking through one of the carbon copy street fairs that populate our fair city during the summer when something caught my eye: a giant piece of shrimp nigiri bound to a fluffy white… pillow. I stopped in my tracks. Now a sushi pillow qualifies as kitsch of a supremely high order — and ironically enough, it’s not even made in Japan. Nope, the geniuses behind the Original Sushi Pillow are a couple of Asian American musical theater actors. And I am now the proud owner of a giant piece of edamame, which I will put… oh, who knows where? But I know I had to have it! Thanks, Cindy and Mel!

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