That's How It Happened

By the time you read this entries for the 2004 Sushi Competition will have closed. My sushi entry is called The Atom Sushi. It's designed to be delicious, and to demonstrate the principles of subatomic physics.
First you construct mini rice balls from regular sushi rice, and sushi rice boiled with squid ink to make it black, as in risotto nero. Then you lightly pan fry these black and white rice balls to fix them as crunchy little spheres. You marinate a little toro (fatty tuna belly) in jalapeno oil and yuzu (japanese citrus) juice, then finely slice this to make a core for the atom. Using a tablespoon make a hemispherical quenelle of tuna in the centre of your plate. The black and white rice balls represent neutrons and protons, and are stuck around the tuna core. The smaller the rice balls you make the more complex a nucleus you can construct. Lithium shown above needs only 7 rice balls, but I would go for something more challenging like strontium. Arrange the protons and neutrons into a larger hemisphere around the tuna, so it is completely obscured. Now take tobiko (flying fish roe) and spread it thinly over the whole surface of your nucleus. This represents the quarks. If you are feeling piggy, you could jam a few ikura (salmon roe) into the gaps to represent mesons and bozons too.
Now for the challenging part. Take mayonnaise, and add the spare yuzu and jalapeno from the marinaded tuna. Mix these three in a squeezy bottle with enough soy sauce to give a single cream consistency. Now very carefully dress the plate by dripping the spicy mayonnaise into ellipses around your nucleus. For realism you have to match the number of ellipses to the number of electron orbits. For lithium this is a bit lame with just two, but five or more looks great. When you are done it should look like one of those 50s nuclear safety posters. Now take another jalapeno and slice it into little round disks. These will be your electrons. Place them appropriately along their mayonnaise orbits.
You are finished! Now submit your design in an international sushi competition and sit back and enjoy as the plaudits and free flights to Tokyo roll in. Oh doh! Too late, but at least you learned about subatomic physics and made a great snack.