On 2007-04-30 15:43:27 -0700, "James Silverton"
<not.jim.silverton.at.comcast.not> said:

> The fish was usually cooked until the early 1800s when a man called
> Yohei Hanaya set up a stall or yattai in the Tokyo market. This is
> where the tradition of the best place having the dirtiest curtains
> arose since, in the absence of utensils, people wiped their fingers on
> the nearest thing: the stall curtain! Yoshii believes that sushi began
> to move into a more formal restaurant setting in 1950s.

Oh goodie. I'm glad to seem my memory of history in this regard was
fairly close to right.
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