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Some Tasting Notes on Year-Old Sushi: Funazushi, Japan’s Most Ancient and Potentially Its Most Up-to-Date Sushi
Rath, Eric C.
Rath, Eric C.
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Abstract: Funazushi, a fermented food made with crucian carp, is
often described as Japan’s most ancient form of sushi. This article
evaluates these historical claims and offers some tasting notes, exploring
traditional versions of the dish and new interpretations that
offer a possible future for sushi.
I could never write a global history of sushi without having
eaten what has been called the most “ancient form” of sushi, the
funazushi found in Shiga Prefecture (Hosking 1996: 43). So on a
recent trip to Japan I set aside two days to try to eat as much
funazushi as possible. This proved to be challenging for many
reasons, not the least of which was the taste of funazushi, which
many people find disagreeable. What I learned from the experience
was less about sushi’s past than a possibility for sushi’s
future
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2020-02-03
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Some Tasting Notes on Year-Old Sushi: Funazushi, Japan's Most Ancient and Potentially Its Most Up-to-Date Sushi
Eric C. Rath
Gastronomica: The Journal of Critical Food Studies, Vol. 20 No. 1, Spring 2020; (pp. 34-41) DOI: 10.1525/gfc.2020.20.1.34