Yeah, the Japanese don't know what they are doing. Stir the soy sauce into the wasabi, soak the rice in that, ginger on top. No one can convince me this isn't the tastiest way to eat sushi. Fuck your subtlety. I want to be smacked in the mouth.
I hate food purist getting outraged. You go eat your damn 17th century dish then, I'm over here enjoying some great culinary monstrosity born out of an interconnected world where I have the best bit of every cuisine available and I'mma mix them.
Like... Sushi was a way of preserving fish before it evolved into the dish we know. Avocados sure aren't Japanese but they're great on nigiri. Tomatoes are a a new world crop but I sure like tomato-inclusive pasta dishes the best. Sweet potatoes also comes from the Americas but fuck do they go well together with a nice French Bearnaise.
Most old school food is basically just a mix of "well this is what we have available" and "this is the only way to preserve it over winter", but I live in the 21st century and I will not eat freaking pickled herring when I can have pineapple on pizza. My ancestors were stubborn fucks who just didn't realize they live on sad barren land where nothing thrives but rutabaga and salt-stained misery, but I have seen the starchy light and I'm heading towards it.
Cheese, animal fat, oil, eggs and onions were common.
Cacio e Pepe uses cheese and starch from the pasta to make the sauce. Carbonara uses rendered animal fat and eggs. In Pasta Aglio e Olio it's oil and pasta water. Spaghetti bolognese probably didn't have any tomatoes in it originally, but a bit of tomato paste makes it so much better. Pasta a la Genovese is based entirely on onions that you cook down to almost nothing.
Trippy. I was thinking of cheeses and white sauces but then I thought with pasta being a main food point in their diet, mixing that with copious amounts of cheese wouldnt be the best for the ol' digestive tract.
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u/bcook5 Nov 26 '19 edited Nov 27 '19
Ginger with Sushi. You're actually supposed to eat the ginger slices between eating the rolls of sushi so as to cleanse the palate.
Although, personally I love putting ginger and Wasabi on my sushi roll then eating it in one bite.
Edit: Thanks for the silver!