California Roll Informative Speech

Thanh La

Topic: How to make a California Roll

General Purpose: To inform

Specific purpose: To inform the audience on the history of sushi and the process of how to make a California Roll

Thesis Statement (Central Idea): Knowing the history behind sushi will allow you to appreciate sushi. Also, understanding how a basic California Roll is made further let you enjoy and understand other sushi rolls.

Introduction

Attention getter: (Holding a plate with a traditional Tuna Maki on it) This is a Tuna Maki, a traditional roll with seaweed on the outside and fish on the inside. (Holding another plate with a California Roll on it) This is the Americanized version of a sushi roll with rice on the outside and crab on the inside.

Thesis statement: Knowing the history behind sushi will allow you to appreciate sushi. Also, understanding how a basic California Roll is made further let you enjoy and understand other sushi rolls.

Preview: Following the history of sushi, I will explain how easy, simple, yet beautiful a California Roll can be. First, I will give you a brief history on sushi and how it changed while coming to the US. After, I will go over the materials needed to make a California Roll.

Body

Transition: Lets familiarize ourselves with what sushi is and how it got introduced into the West.

I. History of Sushi

A. There are many stories and folklores that surround the origin of sushi. However, the real origin of sushi came about was putting salted fish into cooked rice causing it to undergo fermentation.

1. Lactic acid is produced as a byproduct of fermented rice. This process of fermentation is also referred to as "pickling". As a result, tsuke-ba or "pickling place" is also called a sushi

Cucumber is also used in a California roll. Julienning cucumbers into crispy, refreshing sticks give the roll a refreshing crunch and texture

E. Imitation Crab meat is made from processed white fish pushed through an extruder into the shape of a crab stick. It is used in many rolls and also different types of fillings and mixes for sushi.

F. Sesame seed and/or smelt roe (masago) is added to the finished roll as decoration, texture, and taste.

G. All sushi rolls are shaped with a bamboo mat that is wrapped in saran wrap to prevent it from sticking.

Transition: With all the ingredients ready to go, we will now put it all together into a California Roll.

A. The first step of making a California roll or any basic 8-piece roll is apply the rice.

1. Apply 2oz. of sushi ready rice onto half a sheet of seaweed.

2. The rice should lay fluffy and even throughout the whole sheet.

B. The second step is putting all the produce and imitation crab meat on top of the mat.

1. Flip the mat where the rice is on the bottom and the seaweed is facing up.

2. Put 0.5oz of avocado and 0.5oz of julienned cucumber on the