Smith wrote that since Seusa was credited in an Associated Press story with creating the roll, likely due to its being made with atypical sushi ingredients at the time like mayonnaise, and no one ...

Much like other iconic dishes with disputed origins, such as deep-dish pizza or the Margarita cocktail, there are several contesting stories about who truly invented the California roll.One ...

Duckworth, in calling the Roll Call cartoon offensive and “really troubling” said, “In some poor attempt to comment on the age of some senators, this cartoon inherently is ageist and ableist.

But Tojo swears that despite the name confusion, the dish we know today as the California roll was created 50 years ago with his own two hands. “In Japan you have pride,” the chef told Food52.

The roll's provenance isn't as well known as its ingredients, but the most widely accepted origin story takes us pretty far from California — and more than 4,500 miles from Japan, for that matter.

The California roll is widely reported to have originated in Vancouver, Canada. Hidekazu Tojo came to Vancouver in the early ’70s and started working at one of the city’s only sushi ...

The store’s signature California roll was Yamada’s idea to help expand the fish-market business. (It certainly wasn’t the first California roll: The invention is credited to chef Ichiro ...

The California roll is a staple at sushi restaurants around the U.S. No matter where you order it, you'll find pretty much the same three ingredients — cucumber, avocado and crab (sometimes ...

It’s also possible the California roll’s inventor wasn’t even in the Golden State at all. Japanese-Canadian sushi chef Hidekazu Tojo says he is the true pioneer of the California roll, which ...