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The History and Variety of Sushi: From Southeast Asia to the United States
TLDR Sushi originated in Southeast Asia and later evolved in Japan, with various types and ingredients. It became popular in the United States in the 1960s and 1990s, and it is important to eat it the proper way and pair it with the right drink.
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Sushi is not just a bite of rice with ingredients, there is a whole variety of sushi available, especially in Japan.
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Sushi originated in Southeast Asia around 2,500 years ago, where cooked rice was fermented and packed with fish, and later in Japan, they began to gut the fish, soak it in sake, and pack it with rice to ferment, resulting in the creation of rice sushi.
10:18
Sushi was born when a sushi chef in Tokyo started rolling vinegar-flavored rice in his hand and topping it with fish, creating nigiri sushi, and it later spread to the United States in the 1960s and became popular in New York in the 1990s thanks to Robert De Niro and the opening of Nobu.
15:32
Sushi can include a variety of ingredients, including raw fish, vegetables like asparagus and cucumber, and mushrooms, but it is important to note that freshwater fish are more prone to parasites than saltwater fish.
20:25
Sushi can include a variety of ingredients, including raw fish, vegetables like asparagus and cucumber, and mushrooms, but it is important to note that freshwater fish are more prone to parasites than saltwater fish.
25:02
Sushi can include a variety of ingredients, such as cereals, roe, tamago, avocado, and soy sauce, but it is important to eat it the proper way by lightly grabbing the nigiri with your fingers, flipping it over, and just barely passing it through the soy sauce before taking a bite.
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Sake is not the best drink to pair with sushi because both are rice-based and do not complement each other well.
34:51
When drinking sake with sushi, it is traditional to pour for your friends and have them pour for you, as sake is meant to be shared.
39:55
To make sushi rice, you need to rinse the rice until the water is almost clear, soak it for half an hour, cook it on medium heat for 15 minutes and simmer for 20 minutes, then let it sit for 15 minutes off the heat, and finally mix it with rice vinegar.
44:32
To make nigiri sushi, you take a lump of rice, shape it into an oblong shape, press down one side to add stability, add wasabi and toppings, and then make maki sushi by spreading a thin coating of rice on a sheet of nori, adding toppings, rolling it tightly with a bamboo mat, and cutting it into eight pieces.
49:09
To make an inside out roll, like a California roll, you would be making what's called Ura maki, where you start with the rice, then put the nori, then the bamboo mat, then the rice, then the toppings, and then roll it up.
53:58
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