sushi
[soo-shee]
- cold boiled rice moistened with rice vinegar, usually shaped into bite-size pieces and topped with raw seafood (nigiri-zushi) or formed into a long seaweed-wrapped roll, often around strips of vegetable or raw fish, and sliced into bite-size pieces (maki-zushi).
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Origin of sushi
1895–1900; < literary Japanese: literally, it is sour
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The best whiskies are made with finesse and the same attention to detail and mindfulness as the finest teas or sushi.
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sushi
- a Japanese dish consisting of small cakes of cold rice with a topping esp of raw fish
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Word Origin
from Japanese
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Word Origin and History for sushi
n.
1893, from Japanese.
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