| Pure and beautiful, plumb and chewy, sushi's in it's | | | | vinegar to cooked rice to get the trademark |
| own world of tempting clean and fresh flavors. | | | | tangy rice taste of today. |
| Sushi can be over the top chic at times, but it | | | | They called this "Haya-Zushi"or instant vinegared |
| started out with much humbler roots. | | | | sushi rice. |
| Sushi is over 2000 years old and started out in | | | | By the eighteenth century "Maki-Zushi" or rolled |
| Japan. It started out as a process used to | | | | sushi, began to appear. When the early nineteenth |
| preserve fish by pressing the fish in a salt and | | | | century rolled around (a little sushi humor there) |
| rice mixture. The earliest known type of sushi | | | | "Nigiri-Zushi" or finger sushi, came into popularity |
| was called "Nare-Zushi" or preserved carp. It was | | | | as sushi stalls started popping up all over Japan. |
| stored for months that way then opened and | | | | Sort of the first Fast Food sushi, people could eat |
| eaten without the rice. It is still eaten this way in | | | | these little bite sized rolls on the go. |
| some parts of Southeast Asia. | | | | The greatest moment in sushi history occurred in |
| Around the fifteenth or sixteenth century the | | | | 1824 when a Tokyo sushi stall vendor named |
| process was shortened creating the | | | | Hanaya Yohei made a finger sushi topped with a |
| "Nama-Nare-Zushi" or partially fermented sushi. In | | | | slice of raw fish. Word spread quickly and now we |
| this form the rice was eaten with the fish. It | | | | have sushi in it's current form. |
| wasn't until much later, around the seventeenth | | | | Raw fish and vinegared rice, what a delectable |
| century, when the Japanese started adding | | | | combination. |