Pregnancy and sushi
The other day I had lunch with my sushi partners-in-crime Lo Fro and Carlos the Jackal. We had an interesting discussion regarding the opinion that a woman should not eat sushi while pregnant. I had recently discovered a line of maternity clothing featuring text prominently placed over the belly shouting the second most important pregnancy countdown, e.g. “Nine Months to Sushi.”
Of course I think the warning against prego sushi is is just plain trickery, an evil conspiracy to make a pregnant woman even more uncomfortable and crazy during an already crazy and uncomfortable period. So I started thinking back to my pregnancy days and tried to remember – did I cut out on the sushi in an attempt to protect the precious life growing inside of me?
Puh-lease. No way I could do without sushi for 10 months. The last time I had caused a self-imposed sushi drought was in 1999 when I went on the Atkins diet. OMG was that hard. Giving up the sushi, that is, not the rest of the diet. I was so distraught when I learned how many carbs are in one cup of cooked rice and that I had to give up the sushi in order to be successful on the diet …. thank God there’s sashimi.
No sushi exile
Anyway, I digress. So having vowed never again to voluntarily place myself in sushi exile, I simply compromised during my pregnancy. No raw stuff - just crab, shrimp, tamago (egg)and unagi (eel) sushi for me and my bambino. Well, maybe I snuck a couple pieces of yellowtail from time to time… In any event, I’m happy to say the baby turned out healthy (and already loves sushi at age two – check out her video in the post about chopsticks) and I didn’t have to go without sushi for the duration of the pregnancy. Awesome!
