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\"\"<\/a>Although sushi is perhaps the one word most recognized by speakers of English as being Japanese in origin, the name of this dish was not the first word, or even the first food word, borrowed from the Japanese language. The first Japanese word to enter English was bonze, meaning Buddhist priest, which appeared in 1588. After this, the first Japanese food word\u2014mochi, denoting a rice cake\u2014appeared in 1616, the year Shakespeare died. Then sake (a rice wine) appeared in 1687, followed by soy (a sauce) in 1696 and miso (a cooking paste) in 1727. Sake, incidentally, comes from saka mizu, meaning prosperous waters, and soy comes from sho yu, two words meaning salted beans and oil, a name that the Japanese themselves borrowed from Chinese. After these sporadic borrowings, the number of Japanese food words introduced into English dropped off for more than a century and a half. Then, in the late nineteenth century, between 1880 and 1900, the Victorians\u2014who were suddenly crazy about things Japanese\u2014started talking about, if not eating, all kinds of Japanese foods, including sushi (balls of rice garnished with fish), sashimi (raw, sliced fish served with radish or ginger), soba (buckwheat noodles), wasabi (a Japanese herb, somewhat like horseradish), tsukemono (pickled vegetables), tofu (a soya bean curd), and nori (thin layers of seaweed). The origin of some of these names is not known; sushi, however, derives from a phrase meaning it is sour, in reference to the fish being pickled or sometimes even fermented; sashimi derives from two words\u2014sashi, meaning pierce, and mi, meaning flesh\u2014in reference to the fish being thinly sliced; tsukemono also derives from two words, tsukero, meaning to pickle, and mono, meaning a thing, an etymology implying that everything on earth is potentially tsukemono; and tofu derives from dou, meaning beans, and\/w, meaning rotten or curdled. In 1920, three more Japanese food words appeared for the first time in English in a Japanese advertising brochure: udon, a wheat flour noodle; sukiyaki, a dish of thinly sliced beef that takes its name from suki, meaning slice, and yaki, meaning broil; and tempura, a dish of battered fish and vegetables whose name the Japanese had taken from Portuguese missionaries in the seventeenth century. The Portuguese in turn had derived their word tempera, meaning seasoning, from the Latin word temperare, meaning to blend; this origin means that tempura is related to words such as temperature and temperance. The most recent infusion of Japanese culinary words into English occurred between 1960 and 1970 and includes rumaki (an appetizer of chicken liver, water chestnuts, and bacon); dashi (cooking stock\u2014its name derives from dashi-jiru, meaning to extract juice); shabu-shabu (thin slices of beef cooked in soup\u2014its name supposedly comes from the sound of beef slices swishing around in the broth); oshibori (a towel used to wash the hands before a meal\u2014the initial o of the word means honorable and shibori means that which has been wrung out); teriyaki (meat marinated in soy sauce, then broiled\u2014the ten part of the word means glaze while yaki means broil); yakitori (chicken broiled on a skewer\u2014the tori part of the word means fowl); and tepan-yaki (a method of broiling food\u2014its name derives from tepan, meaning iron plate).<\/p>\n

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A traditional Japanese food made of raw fish, usually wrapped in a soft rice shell. Some raw fish contain adults or larvae of the nematodes of the family Anisakidae. In order to prevent these organisms from infecting persons who eat raw fish, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has directed that prior to serving, the fish must be suddenly .frozen to \u2014 31\u00b0F (-34.4\u00b0C) or below for 15 hr, or held in a commercial freezer at -4\u00b0F (-20\u00b0C) for 24 hr. After that period, the fish may be thawed and served.<\/p>\n

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This dish is comprised of cooked rice, saut\u00e9ed tofu, scrambled egg, fish cake or smoked eel, and assorted vegetables. The blend can be fashioned into balls, flattened and rolled in seaweed, or arranged in cornucopia-like shapes.<\/p>\n

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The origin of some of these names is not known; sushi, however, derives from a phrase meaning it is sour, in reference to the fish being pickled or sometimes even fermented; sashimi derives from two words\u2014sashi, meaning pierce, and mi, meaning flesh\u2014in reference to the fish being thinly sliced; tsukemono also derives from two words, tsukero, meaning to pickle, and mono, meaning a thing, an etymology implying that everything on earth is potentially tsukemono; and tofu derives from dou, meaning beans, and\/w, meaning rotten or curdled. In 1920, three more Japanese food words appeared for the first time in English in a Japanese advertising brochure: udon, a wheat flour noodle; sukiyaki, a dish of thinly sliced beef that takes its name from suki, meaning slice, and yaki, meaning broil; and tempura, a dish of battered fish and vegetables whose name the Japanese had taken from Portuguese missionaries in the seventeenth century. 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Firstly, there are sushi rolls, wherein vinegared rice is artfully spread with small pieces of fish and enveloped in edible seaweed. Secondly, sushi bowls showcase a bed of vinegared rice adorned with an assortment of fish, shellfish, and vegetables, creating a visually captivating presentation. Lastly, the most widely favored rendition involves small, bite-sized balls or rectangles of vinegared rice crowned with delectable morsels of raw fish. In Japan, sushi bars can be found abundantly throughout major cities, offering a wide array of sushi creations. 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Then sake (a rice wine) appeared in 1687, followed by soy (a sauce) in 1696 and miso (a cooking paste) in 1727. Sake, incidentally, comes from saka mizu, meaning prosperous waters, and soy comes from sho yu, two words meaning salted beans and oil, a name that the Japanese themselves borrowed from Chinese. After these sporadic borrowings, the number of Japanese food words introduced into English dropped off for more than a century and a half. Then, in the late nineteenth century, between 1880 and 1900, the Victorians\u2014who were suddenly crazy about things Japanese\u2014started talking about, if not eating, all kinds of Japanese foods, including sushi (balls of rice garnished with fish), sashimi (raw, sliced fish served with radish or ginger), soba (buckwheat noodles), wasabi (a Japanese herb, somewhat like horseradish), tsukemono (pickled vegetables), tofu (a soya bean curd), and nori (thin layers of seaweed). The origin of some of these names is not known; sushi, however, derives from a phrase meaning it is sour, in reference to the fish being pickled or sometimes even fermented; sashimi derives from two words\u2014sashi, meaning pierce, and mi, meaning flesh\u2014in reference to the fish being thinly sliced; tsukemono also derives from two words, tsukero, meaning to pickle, and mono, meaning a thing, an etymology implying that everything on earth is potentially tsukemono; and tofu derives from dou, meaning beans, and\/w, meaning rotten or curdled. In 1920, three more Japanese food words appeared for the first time in English in a Japanese advertising brochure: udon, a wheat flour noodle; sukiyaki, a dish of thinly sliced beef that takes its name from suki, meaning slice, and yaki, meaning broil; and tempura, a dish of battered fish and vegetables whose name the Japanese had taken from Portuguese missionaries in the seventeenth century. The Portuguese in turn had derived their word tempera, meaning seasoning, from the Latin word temperare, meaning to blend; this origin means that tempura is related to words such as temperature and temperance. The most recent infusion of Japanese culinary words into English occurred between 1960 and 1970 and includes rumaki (an appetizer of chicken liver, water chestnuts, and bacon); dashi (cooking stock\u2014its name derives from dashi-jiru, meaning to extract juice); shabu-shabu (thin slices of beef cooked in soup\u2014its name supposedly comes from the sound of beef slices swishing around in the broth); oshibori (a towel used to wash the hands before a meal\u2014the initial o of the word means honorable and shibori means that which has been wrung out); teriyaki (meat marinated in soy sauce, then broiled\u2014the ten part of the word means glaze while yaki means broil); yakitori (chicken broiled on a skewer\u2014the tori part of the word means fowl); and tepan-yaki (a method of broiling food\u2014its name derives from tepan, meaning iron plate).A traditional Japanese food made of raw fish, usually wrapped in a soft rice shell. Some raw fish contain adults or larvae of the nematodes of the family Anisakidae. In order to prevent these organisms from infecting persons who eat raw fish, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has directed that prior to serving, the fish must be suddenly .frozen to \u2014 31\u00b0F (-34.4\u00b0C) or below for 15 hr, or held in a commercial freezer at -4\u00b0F (-20\u00b0C) for 24 hr. After that period, the fish may be thawed and served.This dish is comprised of cooked rice, saut\u00e9ed tofu, scrambled egg, fish cake or smoked eel, and assorted vegetables. The blend can be fashioned into balls, flattened and rolled in seaweed, or arranged in cornucopia-like shapes.Sushi, a renowned Japanese delicacy, consists of vinegared rice paired with fresh raw fish, serving as a delectable snack or appetizer. This culinary delight manifests in three distinctive forms. Firstly, there are sushi rolls, wherein vinegared rice is artfully spread with small pieces of fish and enveloped in edible seaweed. Secondly, sushi bowls showcase a bed of vinegared rice adorned with an assortment of fish, shellfish, and vegetables, creating a visually captivating presentation. Lastly, the most widely favored rendition involves small, bite-sized balls or rectangles of vinegared rice crowned with delectable morsels of raw fish. In Japan, sushi bars can be found abundantly throughout major cities, offering a wide array of sushi creations. Sushi has become a beloved inclusion in lunch and picnic boxes, captivating the palates of those seeking a taste of Japanese culinary excellence.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/sushi\/","og_site_name":"Glossary","article_published_time":"2020-09-15T08:01:07+00:00","article_modified_time":"2023-05-16T09:51:39+00:00","og_image":[{"width":800,"height":1287,"url":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Sushi.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Glossary","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Glossary","Est. reading time":"4 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/sushi\/","url":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/sushi\/","name":"Sushi - Definition of Sushi","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/#website"},"datePublished":"2020-09-15T08:01:07+00:00","dateModified":"2023-05-16T09:51:39+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/#\/schema\/person\/ccfef987a4882e6356ae6d77d33e74c5"},"description":"Although sushi is perhaps the one word most recognized by speakers of English as being Japanese in origin, the name of this dish was not the first word, or even the first food word, borrowed from the Japanese language. The first Japanese word to enter English was bonze, meaning Buddhist priest, which appeared in 1588. After this, the first Japanese food word\u2014mochi, denoting a rice cake\u2014appeared in 1616, the year Shakespeare died. Then sake (a rice wine) appeared in 1687, followed by soy (a sauce) in 1696 and miso (a cooking paste) in 1727. Sake, incidentally, comes from saka mizu, meaning prosperous waters, and soy comes from sho yu, two words meaning salted beans and oil, a name that the Japanese themselves borrowed from Chinese. After these sporadic borrowings, the number of Japanese food words introduced into English dropped off for more than a century and a half. Then, in the late nineteenth century, between 1880 and 1900, the Victorians\u2014who were suddenly crazy about things Japanese\u2014started talking about, if not eating, all kinds of Japanese foods, including sushi (balls of rice garnished with fish), sashimi (raw, sliced fish served with radish or ginger), soba (buckwheat noodles), wasabi (a Japanese herb, somewhat like horseradish), tsukemono (pickled vegetables), tofu (a soya bean curd), and nori (thin layers of seaweed). The origin of some of these names is not known; sushi, however, derives from a phrase meaning it is sour, in reference to the fish being pickled or sometimes even fermented; sashimi derives from two words\u2014sashi, meaning pierce, and mi, meaning flesh\u2014in reference to the fish being thinly sliced; tsukemono also derives from two words, tsukero, meaning to pickle, and mono, meaning a thing, an etymology implying that everything on earth is potentially tsukemono; and tofu derives from dou, meaning beans, and\/w, meaning rotten or curdled. In 1920, three more Japanese food words appeared for the first time in English in a Japanese advertising brochure: udon, a wheat flour noodle; sukiyaki, a dish of thinly sliced beef that takes its name from suki, meaning slice, and yaki, meaning broil; and tempura, a dish of battered fish and vegetables whose name the Japanese had taken from Portuguese missionaries in the seventeenth century. The Portuguese in turn had derived their word tempera, meaning seasoning, from the Latin word temperare, meaning to blend; this origin means that tempura is related to words such as temperature and temperance. The most recent infusion of Japanese culinary words into English occurred between 1960 and 1970 and includes rumaki (an appetizer of chicken liver, water chestnuts, and bacon); dashi (cooking stock\u2014its name derives from dashi-jiru, meaning to extract juice); shabu-shabu (thin slices of beef cooked in soup\u2014its name supposedly comes from the sound of beef slices swishing around in the broth); oshibori (a towel used to wash the hands before a meal\u2014the initial o of the word means honorable and shibori means that which has been wrung out); teriyaki (meat marinated in soy sauce, then broiled\u2014the ten part of the word means glaze while yaki means broil); yakitori (chicken broiled on a skewer\u2014the tori part of the word means fowl); and tepan-yaki (a method of broiling food\u2014its name derives from tepan, meaning iron plate).A traditional Japanese food made of raw fish, usually wrapped in a soft rice shell. Some raw fish contain adults or larvae of the nematodes of the family Anisakidae. In order to prevent these organisms from infecting persons who eat raw fish, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has directed that prior to serving, the fish must be suddenly .frozen to \u2014 31\u00b0F (-34.4\u00b0C) or below for 15 hr, or held in a commercial freezer at -4\u00b0F (-20\u00b0C) for 24 hr. After that period, the fish may be thawed and served.This dish is comprised of cooked rice, saut\u00e9ed tofu, scrambled egg, fish cake or smoked eel, and assorted vegetables. The blend can be fashioned into balls, flattened and rolled in seaweed, or arranged in cornucopia-like shapes.Sushi, a renowned Japanese delicacy, consists of vinegared rice paired with fresh raw fish, serving as a delectable snack or appetizer. This culinary delight manifests in three distinctive forms. Firstly, there are sushi rolls, wherein vinegared rice is artfully spread with small pieces of fish and enveloped in edible seaweed. Secondly, sushi bowls showcase a bed of vinegared rice adorned with an assortment of fish, shellfish, and vegetables, creating a visually captivating presentation. Lastly, the most widely favored rendition involves small, bite-sized balls or rectangles of vinegared rice crowned with delectable morsels of raw fish. In Japan, sushi bars can be found abundantly throughout major cities, offering a wide array of sushi creations. Sushi has become a beloved inclusion in lunch and picnic boxes, captivating the palates of those seeking a taste of Japanese culinary excellence.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/sushi\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/sushi\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/sushi\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Sushi"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/","name":"Glossary","description":"Difinitions","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/#\/schema\/person\/ccfef987a4882e6356ae6d77d33e74c5","name":"Glossary","url":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/author\/adminglossary\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41189"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224577,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41189\/revisions\/224577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}