242. The History of Sushi: Japan’s Most Famous Cuisine! (English Vocabulary Lesson)
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If you think about Japanese food, probably the first dish that comes to mind is sushi. But would it surprise you to know that sushi today is vastly different from just a few hundred years ago? Today, let’s talk about how a fermented fish dish from China evolved into the national food of Japan!
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Vocabulary
- **Cuisine (n) - **a style of cooking
- **Raw (adj) - **(of food) not cooked.
- **Refrigerate (v) - **to make or keep something, especially food or drink, cold so that it stays fresh, usually in a fridge.
- **Preserve (v) - **to treat food in a particular way so that it can be kept for a long time without going bad.
- **Ferment (v) - **If food or drink ferments or if you ferment it, it goes through a chemical change because of the action of yeast or bacteria, which may cause it to produce bubbles or heat, or turn sugars in it into alcohol.
- **Predecessor (n) - **something that comes before another thing in time or in a series.
- **Parasite (n) - **an animal or plant that lives on or in another animal or plant of a different type and feeds from it.
- **Authentic (adj) - **If something is authentic, it is real, true, or what people say it is.
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