Quotes from Sasha Issenberg

There have come to be a number of ways to write sushi, but all are derived from the old word suppashi, meaning "sour". In its original form, sushi was fish preserved with salted rice, a process that seems to have originated in southeast Asia.

Until the Meiji era, the highest-quality sushi shops preferred blue marlin, and tuna was - along with oily mackerel, saury, gizzard shard, and sardines - seen as lower-grade fish. When tuna was fish used for sushi in the nineteenth century, it was usually marinated in soy.

It was after the American occupation came to Japan, and Japanese people got introduced to steaks that were greasy. Then fatty things became tasty to the Japanese." says Tsunernori Iida, of Hicho

Loving the game meant mastering the mechanics of the game.

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