RemyScalza.com: Independent Journalism » Organic Ocean http://remyscalza.com Travel + People + Culture Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:53:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Rolling Through Vancouver’s Olympic-Size Sushi Scene http://remyscalza.com/2009/07/27/rolling-through-vancouvers-olympic-size-sushi-scene/ http://remyscalza.com/2009/07/27/rolling-through-vancouvers-olympic-size-sushi-scene/#comments Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:03:52 +0000 Remy http://remyscalza.com/?p=326

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Anyone who likes sushi – or Canadians – might be interested in this article I wrote, which appeared in Sunday’s Washington Post.

Rolling Through Vancouver’s Olympic-Size Sushi Scene

By Remy Scalza; Special to The Washington Post

It’s hard to say what was going through the minds of Vancouver’s Olympic planners when they came up with the mascots for next year’s Winter Games. To serve as one of Canada’s ambassadors to the world, they picked an earmuffs-wearing Big Foot that looks like Chewbacca. The city’s Olympic brain trust could have saved themselves a lot of trouble by recognizing a real symbol of Vancouver: a big piece of sashimi.

Click here for the full article on The Washington Post site.


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