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ShareIn The Story of Sushi journalist Trevor Corson provides a lively tour of the culture of sushi in America––from the chefs who prepare sushi to the multifarious creatures that compose it.
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He escorts the reader behind the sushi bar, through an extensive three–month course at the California Sushi Academy in Los Angeles where he spent a semester shadowing the founder of the Academy and a select group of master chefs and their trainees and experienced first hand what's involved in becoming "a naturalist with a knife." In Corson's words, "People see sushi chefs working behind the sushi bar and think that's what they do.
Customers never see the many hours of prep work that go into getting the sushi bar set up in the first place.
Master sushi chefs require knowledge of anatomy and life cycles of the creatures to know what creatures to serve at what time of year and how to break them down from their natural, whole state.
All this happens in the kitchen in the afternoon.
I take the reader inside that world and show them the skills required.
It's much more than just slicing blocks of fish and making rolls and nigiri." As the story of the chefs and trainees unfolds, he describes the different types of organisms that compose sushi, their behavior, biology, evolutionary origins, ecological niches, and nutritional properties.
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