Visiting a gentleman at Genki
Sushi: the trendy food of the early 2000’s is fast becoming a standard, more affordable dining option. Many hipsters slurping their sake while dribbling soy sauce all over designer shirts will be surprised to learn that sushi has a rich and interesting history; a little bit of a rags to riches story.
Food historians say that sushi, which has become so identified with Japan, didn’t actually originate there. They say that it dates back to the sixth century BC in Southeast Asia, where salted fish, after being cleaned and gutted, was preserved by fermenting it in rice for six months to a year. “Back then, they used to eat only the fish and throw away the rice,” says Terutoshi Hibino, a professor of food culture at Nagoya Keizai University’s Junior College. The preserved fish spread north through China during the fifth century B.C., and is said to have arrived in Japan more than a thousand years later, where it was called narezushi. The fermentation period was later cut to one to three months. And this type of sushi, called nama narezushi became popular in the Muromachi or Ashikaga period (1338-1573).
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