1.   Although she is now a part-time student at Hunter College, she thinks of herself as a sushi chef.

2.   And Abraham Lim plays a suave sushi chef whose computer hacking gives Ms. Cheang the chance to flash slogans across a monitor screen.

3.   Another evolution he notes is that sushi chefs accommodate American palates by using more wasabi, the cocktail sauce of the sushi bar, than is customary in Japan.

4.   Apprentices would work and frequently live with sushi chefs, often from a very young age.

5.   At Hama in Venice, Calif. sushi chefs, from left, Ai Takayama, Tali Server and Masayo Ohnuki.

6.   A former sushi chef in Yonkers, N.Y., Mike Suzuki has struck out on his own in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.

7.   A real sushi chef slices with a deft hand and forms rice cakes with a quick, magicianlike back-and-forth motion of the hands.

8.   But perhaps no profession has eluded women more than that of sushi chef.

9.   But what about sushi chefs?

10.   Creating a generation of female sushi chefs is proving expensive for Maneyama.