American Tuna: The Rise and Fall of an Improbable Food Volume 37 Hardcover - 2012 - 1st Edition
by Andrew F. Smith
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"Tuna are fast swimmers, but their journey into the heart of American culture and cuisine has been long and circuitous. With authority and grace, Andrew Smith charts the course of these big, beautiful, fearsome-looking creatures to our shores, from early disrepute to lunchbox ubiquity to gastronomic reverence and off into the cold, dark waters of near extinction. His fish tale is compelling, informative, and ultimately as meaty as his subject." -- Colman Andrews, Editorial Director of TheDailyMeal.com
"In American Tuna, Andrew Smith poses, and answers, a provocative series of question on the history, life, and environment of this most magnificent fish. A compelling and timely read." -- Anne Willan, author of The Cookbook Library and The Country Cooking of France
"The indefatigable and prolific Andrew Smith has caught a big one this time. In this lively social history he shows us why the regal blue fin captured the appetite and imagination of 20th century America in the way that the royal cod captured the colonial imagination. More please!" -- Molly O'Neill, author of One Big Table: A Portrait of American Cooking
"Tuna is not only America's favorite fish, but an all-American champion food. How that came to be, how the tuna industry rose from being a local ethnic industry to a food giant, how that impacted the fish, their ecology and very survival, is the subject of this excellent and highly readable study by Andrew F. Smith. It is, literally, just about everything you want to know when opening a can to make a tuna salad sandwich. " -- Bruce Kraig, author of Hot Dog: A Global History
"From the master of the single subject food book comes another work, destined to become a classic. Smith has an uncanny ability to trace the changing fortune of an ingredient, following the vicissitudes of fate and fashion and turning it into a great story - a fisherman's tale in this case, though with no exaggeration. Expect surprises at every turn, as Smith hauls in this huge subject." -- Ken Albala, author of Beans: A History
Details
- Title American Tuna: The Rise and Fall of an Improbable Food Volume 37
- Author Andrew F. Smith
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 264
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of California Press
- Date 2012-08-08
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9780520261846 / 0520261844
- Weight 1.09 lbs (0.49 kg)
- Dimensions 9.26 x 6.3 x 0.92 in (23.52 x 16.00 x 2.34 cm)
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Themes
- Aspects (Academic): Historical
- Library of Congress subjects Cooking (Tuna), Tuna - United States - History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012000822
- Dewey Decimal Code 641.392
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- Shelf Awareness, 08/17/2012, Page 0
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