Sushi House
Restaurant in Cedar Rapids, IA
Japan is an island nation, its surrounding seas warmed by Kuroshio, the plankton-rich Japan Current, and abundant with an astonishing range of fish and shellfish. The islands themselves are mountainous, and what little arable land exists is terraced and carefully cultivated to coax rice and a few other crops from the earth. Japan has always fed its dense population from the sea and the rice fields, its cuisine emphasizing what nature supplies. Sushi, the combination of raw fish and seasoned rice that seems so exotic to foreigners, is a supremely logical food in Japan.