Sushi: A Globalized Favorite from Humble Beginnings
The genealogy of some of Japan's favorite cuisines can be traced back over a thousand years and beyond their borders. Sushi, the most popular of all Japanese cuisine, has a fascinating history relating to its evolution to what we know today. Sushi's popularity has continued to explode, spreading throughout the United States in the 1970s. Sushi is now a global phenomenon.
Japanese cookery has evolved over time and has features that make each item unique and identifiable to their culture. Sushi is such an item. Its sudden rise to popularity brings an interest about sushi's origin, genealogy, and the background history of people and events that changed the methods used to create different styles of Sushi. It's popularity, globalization, and the distinctive differences earmarked by some types of sushi are a growing interest to novice and experienced connoisseurs of sushi.
Origin
A. The origins of sushi date back to 4th century B.C. In the area of Southeast Asia, places of rice cultivation and fishery. More specifically, plains of the north of Thailand, Raos, Myanmer, and Malaysia could be considered the birthplace of sushi before it trickled down to China.
B. The beginning of all sushi was to make a method of preserving fish.
The preservation method was not possible without both rice and fish
Cultivation. It was picked up as a fish preservation method in Japan.
1. Fish placed between two wads of rice, pressed and weighted.
By aid of starchy rice, it preserved protein rich foods (fish and meat).
Generation of lactic acid prevents rotting.
2. The rice was used to help start the fermentation, but was then thrown away afterwards. At this point, only the fish was eaten, as rice gets too soppy...
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