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Japanese food: Sushi

Sushi
• Sushi is a Japanese dish featuring specially prepared rice and usually
some type of fish or seafood, often raw, but sometimes cooked.
History of Sushi
• The origins of sushi date back to the fourth century AD. In various areas of
Southeast Asia there was a particular method of preservation. Fish that was
gutted, salted and placed in the middle of cooked rice. The rice fermented,
creating an acidic environment in which bacteria couldn’t develop and fish
could keep for months, transported and stored. When they ate fish, however,
they threw rice away.
The first evolution
• With the Muromachi period (1336-1573), fermented rice was no longer thrown away but eaten
together with fish. This type of sushi took the name Namanare. Sushi was gradually changing
from a simple method of preserving fish to an actual recipe. The Japanese developed a taste for
this semi-cooked fish together with acidulous rice. People began to reproduce this type of
combination not by fermentation, but by adding vinegar to boiled rice.
Some fun facts of sushi
• Sushi has Chinese roots.
• The sushi rice was originally discarded.
• Modern sushi was invented in Tokyo around 1824.
• The traditional fermented sushi is quite stinky.
• Sushi became popular in Japan due to an earthquake.
• Sushi receives its name from the rice not the fish.
• Sushi has a wealth of health benefits.

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