COWTOWN SUSHI

Sushi is a very ancient art that was actually created as a way to preserve food. According to food historians, rice probably originated in Southeast Asia or China, and the people of Thailand and Laos fermented rice and fish as early as 500 B.C. In Japan, the original sushi used only pickled fish or seafood, and when my ancestors finally did add rice in the 17th century, it was just to help the fermentation process- then the rice was actually discarded! It was not until the middle of the Edo period that the ancients discovered the diliciousness of vinegared rice, and which we still enjoy today.

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