Funa-Zushi. The Horrid Roots of Modern Sushi News4Jax

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Funa-Zushi. The Horrid Roots of Modern Sushi News4Jax



The dish that we know as Sushi is a brilliantly modernized version of a Japanese Culinary innovation from the 1800s.

Its introduction to world kitchens, particularly American, has transformed it into one of the most successful fusion food forms in the world.  Without global influences, Sushi would not be the gorgeous and experimental dish it is today.

But even what we presently think of as traditional Japanese Sushi was a vast improvement of an earlier dish imported from China and prepared for 800 years before the innovations of nameless street vendors in Tokyo less than 200 years ago created what we recognize as 'sushi' today.  Join us as we explore the horrid precursor, Funa Zushi.

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