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...sushi would probably be unrecognizable to the modern diner. Raw fish was packed in jars with layers of rice and fermented for weeks, like pungent cheese. These days, of course, sushi is as innocuous as a Big Mac, and just as ubiquitous. In The Zen of Fish, Trevor Corson reports that even the Wal-Mart in Plano, Texas, has its own sushi counter...
...Corson's is one of two recent books to track sushi's evolution from a street snack in Edo Japan to yuppie haute cuisine to fast food served on conveyor belts. The surge of interest among non-Japanese writers underscores sushi's current international cachet. Corson argues that that popularity is actually undermining sushi's quintessential Japaneseness: it has become a truly global food. Indeed, he tells his story primarily through a young American woman training at a sushi academy, not in Tokyo, but in Los Angeles. Corson spends altogether too much time describing her floundering "battle with fish...
...neither he nor Corson meaningfully address what the insatiable demand for sushi is doing to the planet's supply of fish. The slow-maturing bluefin tuna, for instance, the most prized sushi fish in Japan, is already imperiled. And the bluefin may only be the first to disappear: as Corson notes, scientists have estimated that all of the world's ocean fish will be gone by 2050. The sushi boom may represent the triumph of benign globalization, but its net effect will be emptier seas...
...Medical Center’s emergency room, according to the local medical examiner. Alejandro Luna, 17, has been charged with second-degree murder and second-degree assault and is now awaiting a June 20 preliminary trial to determine if he will be charged as an adult, said Ross E. Corson, spokesman for the Hennepin County attorney. ‘HE COULD HAVE DONE ANYTHING’ From his roots on the reservation, Meat traveled a long way, leaving the local public system to graduate with the top award from the Berkshire School in Sheffield, Mass. He told friends he wanted...
They're up industry-wide, 11.6% in the first quarter, to their highest level in 20 years. People want bigger and better RVs, says Corson, who sells everything from a $3,500 folding trailer to a $160,000 motor home the size of the Love Boat. They want AC, microwave, satellite dishes, PC stations, hydraulic slide-outs to expand room size when parked. If Coachmen could figure out how to make one with a back lawn, some Joe's going to buy the damn thing and mow it while Ethel does 65 on the interstate...