My husband, David Rutter, who has died aged 82, was a well-known teacher in Brighton who also helped to introduce sushi to the town through a catering business he set up on his retirement.
David taught English and drama at Nevill school (later Blatchington Mill school), Hove, for many years, and he eventually became assistant head. He was inspirational in the classroom and is remembered warmly by pupils for his imaginative lessons and idiosyncratic style. In 1988 he took early retirement and went for several months to Hawaii to learn how to make sushi, which at the time was little known or eaten in Britain.
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