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Apr 25, 2017 · Read an excerpt from author Paul Greenberg's best-selling book about how four fish -- salmon, sea bass, cod and tuna -- have come to dominate the seafood market.
In his James Beard award-winning book, Paul Greenberg tells the story of how we tamed the sea and what the future holds for our last wild food. Zeroing in on four fish – salmon, bass, cod, and tuna – Greenberg travels the globe looking for where we went wrong with the human-ocean relationship and how we might one day get it right.
The way we fish for popular seafood such as salmon, tuna and shrimp is threatening to ruin our oceans. Paul Greenberg explores the sheer size and irrationality of the seafood economy, and suggests a few specific ways we can change it, to benefit both the natural world and the people who depend on fishing for their livelihoods.
Jun 28, 2010 · The four fish that are investigated are the Tuna, the Salmon, the Bass, and the Cod—the four fish that dominate the menus at fancy restaurants and fast food chains and family dinner tables. The underlying premise is that globally we are overfishing. We are harvesting more fish every year than are produced.
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Jul 21, 2010 · Greenberg tells his story through what he calls four "archetypes of fish flesh": salmon, sea bass, cod, and tuna. These are species that humans are attempting to "master in one way or another ...
Jul 29, 2010 · The point of the book comes down to the push and pull of our desire to eat wild fish, and the promise and fear of consuming the farmed variety. As Greenberg follows his four species, and our ...
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We stand at the edge of a cataclysm; there is a distinct possibility that our children's children will never eat a wild fish that has swum freely in the sea. In Four Fish , award-winning writer and lifelong fisherman Paul Greenberg takes us on a culinary journey, exploring the history of the fish that dominate our menus - salmon, sea bass, cod ...
