History Of Philadelphia Roll, Hawaiian Roll And California Roll

Philadelphia Roll, Hawaiian Roll, and California Roll are just a few of the different types of sushi that are served today. Originating in Japan, sushi has taken the world by storm, being served all across the world, whether it’s at a local restaurant or the supermarket. It could be your traditional sushi consisting of rice and fish or the more Americanized sushi filled with multiple fillings and topped with the chef’s special sauce. Sushi with its fulfilling yet extremely delicious taste has swept many Americans off their feet from the moment it went global.

REGION

Japan an island nation in East Asia located in the Pacific Ocean which, consists of “four main islands Honshu, the largest; Hokkaido to the north; and Shikoku and Kyushu to the

Sushi was first mentioned in China in the second century A.D where fish were placed in rice and allowed to ferment which allowed you to keep your fish edible for a long time (Sakamoto and Allen, 2011). This particular method eventually spread throughout China and then on to Japan. Once this particular method made it to Japan, the Japanese began to eat their fish with the rice. In the early 19th century, a man by the name of Hanaya Yohei conceived a major change in the production and presentation of his sushi by no longer wrapping the fish in rice, but placing a piece of fresh fish on top of an oblong shaped piece of seasoned rice (Sakamoto and Allen, 2011). The so-called global sushi boom started in the US in the 1960s and 1970s and quickly spread to many parts of the world (Bestor 2000, p. 56, Cwiertka 2001, p. 15). Today you can travel to almost every part of the world and find sushi prepared in many different ways. The first sushi restaurants outside Japan developed along diasporic lines, as Japanese immigrants in the early twentieth century settled in places such as Los Angeles, Hawaii, and Sao Paulo (Sakamoto and Allen, 2011). In the 1970s, however, non-Japanese Americans began eating sushi, first on the West Coast and then in other parts of the country (Sakamoto and Allen, 2011). The type of diffusion that is represented here is relocation diffusion. In the process of coming from overseas sushi slowly went away from the traditional Japanese sushi to more of a modern style. As Japanese cooks began to spread out across the world, depending on their location they created a new style of sushi to become pleasing to all of their