Food Chain - Issue 193 - April 2023 | Page 145

KellyDeli

Making sushi is a precise art . There ’ s a reason why some sushi rolls , painstakingly created by masters of their craft , command price tags in the hundreds – or , in rare cases , thousands – of dollars range .

The inventor of what we now understand as sushi is widely considered to be Hanaya Yohei , who created nigiri-zushi , a kind of sushi many would recognize today : seafood , or a vegetarian equivalent , carefully served on top of hand-pressed and vinegared rice . foodchainmagazine . com 145