What To Eat: Lunch

I've addressed a lot of Japanese lunches in the past couple of years. The truth is, rice balls still need a rice ball mold, roe rice requires a trip to the Asian supermarket and you can't make made-up sushi rolls without a rolling mat. And sometimes training wheels in the form of saran wrap (and even then, sometimes they still fall apart). Temaki, however, doesn't require anything but your hands. Here are a few thoughts on making them for lunch.

I write a lunch column, I'm pretty sure my midday repasts are all deductable (or at least my accountant seems to think so). But even here in New York, I'm pretty good at keeping it under $10. New York is a city famous for quick, affordable and frankly delicious lunches you will almost certainly be eating at your desk — you take the good with the bad — so I thought I'd call out the obvious splurges for a day when one traditionally indulges. Or, you know, cries.

Just to clarify, I'm not actually suggesting you heavily butter a piece of bread and cover it with sprinkles today for lunch. Unless you're simply unable to get that idea out of your head, in which case, have at it, there are many kinds of sprinkles in this world. This is a story about how I took a weird Australian childhood delicacy and turned it into a very positive babysitting experience. Got picky kids? Read on.