![]() ![]() Supermarket sushi counters, often managed by national corporations that operate the counters on a franchise basis, can be found across the country. Ballparks are not the only place sushi has made inroads in the United States. ![]() The audacity of offering sushi at a ballpark became the target of jokes of a number of latenight comedians when the cuisine first started appearing at concession stands next to hot dogs and hamburgers in the late 1980s but today no new stadium opens without a wide selection of food concession options, and sushi almost always makes it to the menu. ![]() (1) Actually, these days you might be more hard-pressed to find a decent hamburger at a sports arena than you would be to find a California roll (although there is no accounting for the quality of that California roll). In a review of the varied concessions on sale at the two baseball stadiums that opened in New York at the start of the 2009 season, New York Times food critic Frank Bruni opens his article with an anecdote of one fan's bewilderment at the availability of sushi at the new Yankee Stadium. Sasha Issenberg, The Sushi Economy: Globalization and the Making of a Modern Delicacy. Trevor Corson, The Zen of Fish: The Story of Sushi, from Samurai to Supermarket. ![]()
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