Beschreibung

Whether it's wild or farmed, fresh or tinned, in batter or a bento box, we're eating more fish than ever before. But what's the story behind the fish on your plate? Award-winning writer and lifelong fisherman Paul Greenberg takes us on a culinary journey through the oceans, telling the stories of the fish we eat the most: salmon, cod, bass and tuna. He visits Norwegian mega farms that use genetic techniques once pioneered on sheep to grow 500,000 tons of salmon a year. He travels to Alaska to see the only Fair Trade certified fishing company in the world. He investigates the pollutants that cause mercury build-up in seafood; discovers how Mediterranean sea bass went global; meets a Polish emigre on the Shetland Islands who may have saved the cod; and, gets sea-sick chasing blue fin tuna off Hawaii. Throughout, Greenberg poses the questions many of us ask when confronted with a seafood menu or a supermarket shelf: Which fish can I eat without worrying? What does overfishing mean? What's the difference between wild, farmed and organic? Should humans domesticate fish as we have animals - or stop eating from the sea altogether? Fish, Greenberg shows, are the last truly wild food we eat - for now. By understanding fully how it gets to our dinner table, we can start to enjoy fish in a way that's healthy for us - and good for the world that exists off our coasts.

Autoren-Info:

Paul Greenberg

Paul Greenberg schreibt seit seinem 16. Lebensjahr über Fische und Meereskultur und veröffentlicht regelmäßig Artikel in der New York Times, in GQ und im Boston Globe. Außerdem leitete er internationale Fernsehproduktionen und Ausbildungsprogramme für die Non-Profit-Organisation Internews. Vier Fische ist sein zweites Buch und das erste, das auf Deutsch erscheint. Paul Greenberg lebt und arbeitet in New York City und in Lake Placid. www.fourfish.org