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is an index to a nation's worldliness, expressing not only the sophistication of a country's taste, but also an equally sophisticated confidence in the procedural purity of an industry with great potential for corruption and adulteration.

Issenberg argues that sushi is an index to a nation's worldliness, expressing not only the sophistication of a country's taste, but also an equally sophisticated confidence in the procedural purity of an industry with great potential for corruption and adulteration. Combining a hunter-gatherer purity with an international market organized around swift transit and state-of-the-art refrigeration, wealthy consumers and artisan chefs who continually reinvent sushi according to local tastes and ingredients, sushi extends the possibility that we might actually be able to have our globalization and eat it, too.

is, in the West, the gay marriage of food, which is to say that not so long ago, people in the west didn't like the idea of eating raw fish at all, but once it became commonplace and accepted, especially for kids these days, it became mainstream.

Jonathan Haidt, argues that 'sushi is the gay marriage of food,' in that not so long ago, people in the West didn't like the idea of eating raw fish at all, but once it became commonplace and accepted, especially for Kids These Days, it became mainstream. Much in the same way, older generations of people are having a harder time accepting marriage equality, while Kids These Days are all 'whatever,' and they're more likely to judge people who don't know how to properly use chopsticks while gay marrying. (Or something like that.) Anyway, it's food for thought.

is representative of a distinct pattern of globalization that defies its usual patterns. Because of its simplicity and its ability to reflect 'individual' styles, it is not susceptible in the same way as other international foods to the dumbing down by corporate monoliths.

Issenberg further argues that sushi, despite its rapid rise as a worldwide fast-food phenomenon, defies the usual patterns of globalization namely, that corporate monoliths take over the production and assembly of raw ingredients, which leads to an inferior and homogenized product being fed to ignorant and uneducated consumers.Modern sushi, he says, hasn't been marketed to us by members of a corporate boardroom, nor have there been powwows determining the market dominance of California rolls. Sushi's evolution and its many different shapes and sizes are the result of individual chefs who have 'mixed flavours across continents.'

is still just called bait in the deep South.

is like a tattoo. If you go the cheap route, you’ll almost certainly regret it.

Sushi is like a tattoo. If you go the cheap route, you’ll almost certainly regret it.

is a cuisine that reaches sublime heights through the use of fresh ingredients from the sea (below) and from the mountains (above).

sushi is a terribly sophisticated cuisine, which in a way it is not. Sushi reaches sublime heights through the use of fresh ingredients "from the sea and from the mountains".

is a meal in which one participates in the process in its entirety, places one's order directly with the chef, sees the fresh ingredients, is able to evaluate their quality and follow along with their preparation.

This has a completely different feel from what happens when you consume a meal at a sushi bar, probably the most democratic incarnation of a restaurant imaginable. Here you are a player in a dynamic process, over which you can exercise some influence. It is the ultimate slow food experience, in which you participate in the process in its entirety. You can place your order directly with the chef. You see the fresh ingredients and are able to evaluate their quality and follow along with their preparation. You can observe the way the meal is presented, which to top it all off is served by the chef himself.

is a style of preparation that was introduced to Japan with the spread of Buddhism in the 9th Century when it was still common practice to drink milk and eat meat, when it suddenly became necessary to devise new ways to store and prepare fish.

It is not at all certain whether sushi was actually invented in China. It is thought that sushi was introduced to Japan in the 9th Century, but its origins are lost in the realms of the unknown. In this period, it was still common practice to drink milk and eat meat, but as Buddhism spread and the eating of meat was prohibited, people increasingly turned to the consumption of fish. It became necessary to devise new ways to store and prepare fish. This paved the way for the development of the Japanese sushi culture.

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