It’s Official: Sushi as American as the Pre-Wrapped Bologna Sandwich

• Ouch, definitely for worse. It's probably caught in California, shipped to Chicago, frozen for a few months, then sent out to stores. The NY Times this past Sunday had a great set of opinion pieces on sushi in America. Basically, don't eat tuna, ask the sushi chef what he'd like to serve you and it's ok to eat it while pregnant. Particularly interesting: "Lobbyists for the sushi and fishing industries insist that tuna is essential to sushi, and that controls on harvesting the fish would threaten traditional Japanese culture. But that�s nonsense. Traditionally, the Japanese considered tuna unfit for sushi � especially the fatty parts. Boiled shellfish, pickled mackerel and lean, light-fleshed snappers and flounders were most popular. Not until the Western diet influenced Japan in the 20th century did the Japanese start to value the red meat of tuna and fatty cuts of fish." http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/s/sushi/index.html Coincidentally I read this post while eating some Wild Oats sushi. It and the seaweed salad ain't bad...

• yum. bologna wraps.

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