All About Sushi (Encore)

Everything Everywhere Daily

Gary Arndt

History, Education

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🗓️ 19 October 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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All over the world, you can find restaurants serving Japan’s greatest cultural export: sushi. While many people enjoy sushi, most people have no idea of the origins of sushi beyond the fact that it comes from Japan. There is also a great deal of confusion about what proper sushi etiquette is and what constitutes real sushi. Learn more about the history of sushi and the global sushi industry on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Sponsors Newspapers.com Newspapers.com is like a time machine. Dive into their extensive online archives to explore history as it happened. With over 800 million digitized newspaper pages spanning three centuries, Newspapers.com provides an unparalleled gateway to the past, with papers from the US, UK, Canada, Australia and beyond. Use the code “EverythingEverywhere” at checkout to get 20% off a publisher extra subscription at newspapers.com. ButcherBox ButcherBox is the perfect solution for anyone looking to eat high-quality, sustainably sourced meat without the hassle of going to the grocery store. With ButcherBox, you can enjoy a variety of grass-fed beef, heritage pork, free-range chicken, and wild-caught seafood delivered straight to your door every month. ButcherBox.com/Daily Subscribe to the podcast! https://link.chtbl.com/EverythingEverywhere?sid=ShowNotes -------------------------------- Executive Producer: Charles Daniel Associate Producers: Peter Bennett & Cameron Kieffer Become a supporter on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingeverywhere Update your podcast app at newpodcastapps.com Discord Server: https://discord.gg/UkRUJFh Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/everythingeverywhere/ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/everythingeverywheredaily Twitter: https://twitter.com/everywheretrip Website: https://everything-everywhere.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following is an encore presentation of Everything Everywhere Daily.
0:04.0	All over the world you can find restaurants serving Japan's greatest cultural export, sushi. While many people enjoy sushi, most people have no idea
0:16.3	of the origins of sushi beyond the fact that it comes from Japan. There's also a great deal of confusion
0:21.5	about what proper sushi etiquette is and what constitutes real sushi.
0:25.0	Learn more about the history of sushi and the global sushi industry on this episode of
0:29.7	Everything Everywhere Daily. thing everywhere daily. Many people would be surprised to learn that sushi's earliest origins aren't actually in Japan, but most probably in China.
0:54.0	Somewhere in southern China or Southeast Asia,
0:57.0	they're developed a technique for the preservation of fish during the rainy season.
1:01.0	Fish would be pickled in barrels along with salt and rice.
1:04.0	When the fish was later unpacked for consumption, the rice, which served as a packing material, was usually thrown away,
1:10.0	and the fish was consumed separately.
1:12.0	The rice that was thrown out wasn't anything
1:15.4	that looked like rice after the fermentation process. It was more of a slime at this point.
1:20.8	This fermented fish became known as Narezushi.
1:24.0	It was considered a delicacy precisely because the rice was thrown away,
1:28.0	making it a luxury.
1:30.0	The fish was nothing like the fish served with modern sushi today.
1:34.6	Naurizushi first appeared in Chinese written records in the fourth century.
1:39.0	Sometime in the eighth century, pickled fish crossed the sea and arrived in Japan. Over several centuries the
1:45.3	taste of the Japanese began to change and they began removing the fish from the
1:49.5	pickling barrel earlier and consuming it with the rice it was packed in.
1:54.0	This became known as Namanari.
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