{"id":1604,"date":"2026-01-14T16:34:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T15:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=1604"},"modified":"2026-01-30T16:10:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T15:10:17","slug":"the-norwegian-who-inveted-salmon-sushi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=1604","title":{"rendered":"The Norwegian who inveted salmon sushi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sometimes people tell me to stop going on about how great Norway is. But&#8230; did you know that salmon sushi is a Norwegian invention? Well, this story is up there among my all-time favourites: &#8220;Sushi inventor&#8221; Bj\u00f8rn Eirik Olsen talked to me for the BBC World Service Witness History programme \u2013 hear his amazing story here!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Sushi-2-wp.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Sushi-2-wp-1024x768.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1612\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Sushi-2-wp-1024x768.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Sushi-2-wp-300x225.png 300w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Sushi-2-wp-768x576.png 768w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Sushi-2-wp.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Photo: Bj\u00f8rn Eirik Olsen<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Witness-Hitory-Salmon-sushi-PART-1.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Witness-History-Salmon-sushi-PART-2.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes people tell me to stop going on about how great Norway is. But&#8230; did you know that salmon sushi is a Norwegian invention? Well, this story is up there among my all-time favourites: &#8220;Sushi inventor&#8221; Bj\u00f8rn Eirik Olsen talked to me for the BBC World Service Witness History programme \u2013 hear his amazing story [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1604"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1613,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604\/revisions\/1613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}