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All you never knew about sushi—its astonishing roots, the vibrant lives of its cooks, and the weird conduct of the animals that write it Trevor Corson takes us behind-the-scenes at America's first sushi-chef education school, as keen beginners make an effort to grasp the challenging art of cooking without cooking. He goes in to the biology and natural history of the animals of the ocean, and tells the intriguing tale of an Indo-Chinese dinner reinvented in nineteenth-century Tokyo like a low-cost junk food. He shows the innovators who introduced sushi for the Usa and examines how this improbable dinner is overflowing in to the American heartland just like the long term potential of sushi might be unraveling. The Account of Sushi reaches once a powerful account of human dedication and a delicious smorgasbord of smart reporting, astonishing food technology, and sexy social background.