Types of Ginger

Credit: Christopher Hirsheimer

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PICKLED GINGER: This familiar accompaniment to sushi—known as gari in the specialized vocabulary of sushi restaurants—is made from fresh ginger, marinated until tender and pink in a rice-vinegar brine and then sliced paper-thin along the grain. It is served both to cleanse the palate and to complement the flavor of fresh raw fish and vinegared rice.