The Fish on Your Plate: Why We Eat What We Eat from the Sea - Softcover

Greenberg, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141031077 ISBN 13: 9780141031071

Publisher: Penguin, 2011

Synopsis

This book is available in another title with the same text - Four Fish: A journey from the ocean to your plate(ISBN 9781846140020)

We eat more fish than ever before. But what's the story behind the fish on your plate? Where did it come from? Which fish can we buy without worrying? What's the difference between wild, farmed and organic? What does overfishing mean - and should humans just stop eating fish altogether?

Paul Greenberg takes us on an eye-opening culinary journey from trawler to table, travelling to fair trade Eskimo fisheries, Norwegian mega salmon farms and rough South Pacific seas in search of wild tuna. Along the way he gives us the facts about fish, showing how the choices we make when we're faced with a seafood menu or supermarket shelf affect the whole world.

About this title

About the Author

Paul Greenberg has been fishing since childhood, and writing for The New York Times, National Geographic and GQ since adulthood. In 2005, his New York Times Magazine article on Chilean Sea Bass received the International Association of Culinary Professionals' award for excellence in food journalism. Greenberg has also received both a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship and a Food and Society Policy Fellowship.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0141031077
• ISBN 13: 9780141031071
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304