Re: [Dumb Questions] While dining out...

[John McTague <tableslam17@yahoo.com>]

Excellent answers to my dumb questions. Thank you Sumo
ML. BTW, it was yummy.

Unagiyutaka

--- AILEEN A UMETANI <aileenrdh@prodigy.net> wrote:
> Hi John,
> Ozeki brand sake has a facility in Hollister,
> California where they produce
> some of their sake.  I am not sure whether what is
> produced there is kept in
> the U.S. or is exported to Japan.  I am sure it is
> produced in Japan also.
> They sell the sake at the facility and it is less
> expensive than in the
> stores here in the bay area.  They also sell or give
> away the "kasu" which
> is the fermented biproduct of sake production.  The
> kasu can be used to make
> a potent pickled vegetable side dish.  My mother
> used to make the "kasu
> zuke" and give it away to friends.  It would keep
> for over a year in the
> kasu mash and aging it may have caused it to be more
> powerful perhaps.  I
> didn't eat it, so I am speaking from observation.
> 
> Aileen Umetani
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John McTague" <tableslam17@yahoo.com>
> To: "Sumo List" <sumo@statgen.ncsu.edu>
> Sent: Saturday, June 01, 2002 9:19 AM
> Subject: [Dumb Questions] While dining out...
> 
> 
> > At my favorite sushi bar, while getting my yutaka
> of
> > unagi, I ordered the hot sake. On this menu it was
> > listed as OZEKI. I had to ask the sushi chef, who
> is
> > Japanese-American, if there was a connection to
> ozumo.
> > He asked me what ozumo was! In fact, there were no
> > fans of wrestling there at all! So, feeling like a
> > gaijin in my hometown, I finished and left for
> home.
> >
> > Has anyone come across this usage of ozeki?
> > Is there a yokozuna sake?
> > Are we alone in the universe?
> >
> > Inquisitively,
> > Unagiyutaka
> >
> >
> >
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