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Explores the trajectory of sushi in the United States, from its introduction by immigrants in the Post-WWII era in Los Angeles’s Little Tokyo to its current status as one of the world’s most popular cuisines.
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00:05There was so much, you know, sex, drugs, and rock and roll, like it or not, it was just
00:12factually happening in that freaking restaurant.
00:16Wasabi and ginger all over the floor.
00:20Surfers, bankers, lawyers, and then Japanese sushi chefs drinking beers, standing on the
00:27bar, getting hammered, using those super sharp knives, you know, like not cutting your fingers
00:32off.
00:32These companies became billion-dollar brands, and a lot of what was happening was being
00:38talked about over sushi and beers.
00:41To have the Japanese dudes just, yeah, Americans, let's party, let's have sake bombs.
00:46Sake bombs?
00:47What the fudge?
00:48Like, dude, you're talking a few decades after the freaking war.
00:54That restaurant brought two cultures together.
00:58Those sushi chefs were rock stars.
01:01These are people who are adventurous and not afraid of risk.
01:05They're gonna come up with new things.
01:08Caterpillar, is that a good name for something you eat?
01:13The history of food is about people going to other places and bringing their traditions,
01:20and then it gets reimagined.
01:21Traditional Japanese sushi become American sushi.
01:25The three chefs I know told me how California Roll started, but I only trust one guy.
01:34Maybe California Roll is not exactly what a sushi seller in 1830 would have sold on Tokyo
01:41Bay, but who cares?
01:45California carved the path for what we see in sushi culture today.
01:50The surfboard is not a good day.
01:54The surfboard has been in the park in the park with a white button, so you can do that,
01:56but I'll let the surfboard over a little bit.
02:01We've got a good job, but we do it here.
02:01The surfboard has been pretty good with the surfboard with a mittel.
02:01gathered the surfboard and the surfboard, which has been pretty good with a Japanese workout.
02:05And let's go on Friday.

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