From: Navindra Umanee Date: 2005-04-02T13:38:46+09:00 Subject: Re: Respect and Disappointment Ben Giddings wrote: > > Personally, I hate Sushi. Well, I've never eaten nor tasted it... so > > I guess I really only hate the idea of it. I mean, raw fish? Gross! > > That's bad enough but stuffing it with nutritionally deficient rice > > for filler? The only redeeming part is the seaweed, IMHO. > > Ok, well this is waaaay off-topic, but so is this whole thread, so I'll > just do a little sushi-education. -1, Offtopic > Sushi is actually all about the rice. The fact that a lot of sushi is made > with raw fish is actually a minor aspect. One of the tastiest (and most > difficult to make) sushi treats is "tamago", a sweet scrambled egg. Sushi > can also be made with cooked seafood: bbq eel, cooked shrimp, etc. The > one common thread is the rice. The rice is not just plain white rice, > it's a special rice cooked with sugar and rice vinegar so that it is > sticky, sweet, and a bit sour. That's too bad. I happen to think that fish (and egg, and seafood in general) is a sane food choice, whether raw or not, and despite the inherent moral dilemma and ickiness of eating an organism high up in the evolutionary chain. I guess heavy metal contamination doesn't help though. Sugar, as an artificially-produced refined carbohydrate, is IMHO much less of a sane food choice. The diet of modern man is probably artificially high in sugar leading to all sorts of problems. Rice is similar in the sense that it is essentially filler, a staple food that was chosen because it was cheap and easy to obtain in bulk. Rice + sugar is essentially a formula leading to an overdose of carbohydrate. At least in my culture, this combination seems to have been wrecking havoc over generations. I'd rather stuff myself with vegetables than rice or grain, and a little fruit instead of sugar. > You should try a "california roll" sometime. It's made from cooked crab > (well normally imitation crab), cucumber, and avocado, often sprinkled > with sesame seeds. Nothing raw in there, other than the veggies. Sounds great! I'll be sure to give it a try sometime. Cheers, Navin.