California roll
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The California roll is a maki roll, a kind of sushi, usually made inside-out, containing cucumber, imitation crab stick, and avocado. Sometimes crab salad is substituted for the crab stick, and often the outer layer of rice (in an inside-out roll) is sprinkled with toasted sesame seeds or tobiko.
Regional variations
- In the Philippines, the avocado is replaced with mango and the outer layer of rice is almost always sprinkled with tobiko; it is known as the California Roll. However, such rolls with cucumber instead of mango also exist, commonly known as the Santa Monica Roll.
History
The origin of the California roll is somewhat murky, but usually food historians credit Ichiro Manashita, sushi chef at the Tokyo Kaikan in Los Angeles with inventing the roll in the early 1970s. [link] After becoming popular in southern California it eventually became popular all across the United States by the 1980s, and is known in Japan as the Kashu-maki.Hidekazu Tojo, now of Tojo's restaurant in Vancouver, BC, claims to have invented the roll around the same time as Manashita, although he initially called it the Tojo-maki. [link]
Trivia
On July 20, 2005, a Japanese entertainer and tourism ambassador of California, Gori of Garage Sale, in his popular disguise of a girl named Gorie, made the world's longest California roll in Hollywood. Tourists from Japan helped him make the roll, which reached 30 meters in length.See also
- Philadelphia roll
- Spider roll
- Rainbow roll
External links
- [History of the California roll with various early recipes and references]
- [Miyamoto's California rolls - detailed instructions]
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