American Catch: The Fight for Our Local Seafood
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| Rating | : | 4.41 (817 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00G3L6NBA |
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| Number of Pages | : | 598 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-10-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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Brilliant and Positive If you find yourself reading books about fish and the ocean, and feeling depressed by them, try this book. There's certainly a lot of bad news about the state of our oceans and the fish stocks world-wide, but Greenberg will expose you to people that are doing something about it. The book is in three main sections - oysters, shrimp and salmon. Who'd have thought that oysters were making a comeback in NYC? They'r. Why do we let our best catch slip away? Suwannee Rose Greenberg takes us along on his adventures researching American oysters, shrimp and salmon. We learn what's gone wrong, but we also learn a few things that are going right. I'm hoping the latest food movements and Greenberg's voice inspires Americans to expand their palates beyond chicken and eat local seafood. I was most intrigued by the Louisiana shrimpers who are posting their days' catch online. By the time. The reader (or listener if you get this audio book) E.B. The reader (or listener if you get this audio book) will learn more than the title implies. The author weaves research and history into a compelling narrative. My friends who hear me describe it have gotten copies of the book and cannot put it down. Paul Greenberg went to the places he writes about to thoroughly investigate his subject. He his an accomplished storyteller. I am recommending this to all people wh
. He has been featured on NPR’s Fresh Air and All Things Considered and has lectured widely on ocean issues at institutions ranging from Google to Yale to the U.S. Paul Greenberg is the author of the James Beard Award–winning bestseller Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food and a regular contributor to the New York Times. Senate. He is currently a Pew fellow in Marine Conservation and a fellow with the Blue
In exchange, we are importing fish farmed in Asia, with little of the brain-building compounds fish eaters are seeking when they eat fish.""The Boston Globe"Greenberg describes a wondrous moment — in the Bronx, of all places; while in search of reintroduced specimen he stumbles on “a real live, naturally spawned New York City oyster a brave sentry from a lost kingdom.” Greenberg is at his best describing such epiphanies — he also writes beautifully about fishing for salmon in Alaska, which offers up similar reveries."The Washington Post"Americans need to eat more American seafood. The Wall Street Journal"This is Mr. He points to the remarkable fact that, "while 91 percent of the seafood Americans
Bizarrely, during that same period, our seafood exports quadrupled. In New York, Greenberg connects an oyster restoration project with a vision for how the bivalves might save the city from rising tides. In the 1920s, the average New Yorker ate six hundred local oysters a year. While Greenberg has a firm grasp of the facts, he also has a storyteller’s knack for framing them in an entertaining way.”The Guardian (UK)“A wonderful new book”Tom Colicchio:"This is on the top of my summer reading list. It’s a point Greenberg makes compellingly clear in his new book, American Catch: The Fight for our Local SeafoodGreenberg had at least one convert: me.”Jane Brody, New York Times “Excellent.”The Los Angeles Times “If this makes it sound like American Catch is another of those dry, haranguing issue-driven books that you read mostly out of obligation, you needn’t worry. American Catch examines New York oysters, Gulf shrimp, an