Sushi Economy Globalization and the Making of a Modern Delicacy

Name: Sushi Economy Globalization and the Making of a Modern Delicacy
Price: 5.02 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9781592402946

ISBN-10: 1592402941

ISBN-13: 9781592402946

Edition: 2007

Authors: Sasha Issenberg

List price: $26.00

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Marketplace

5 new & used from $5.02

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

From the sea to your plate, the first international tour of sushis journey in the global marketplace One generation ago, sushis narrow reach ensured that sports fishermen who caught tuna in most of the world sold the meat for pennies as cat food. Today, the fatty cuts of tuna known as "toro" are among the planets most coveted luxury foods, worth hundreds of dollars a pound and capable of losing value more quickly than any other product on earth. So how has one of the worlds most popular foods gone from being practically unknown in the U.S. to being served in towns all across America, and in such a short span of time? Sushi aficionados and newcomers alike will be surprised to learn the…

Book details

List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Publication date: 5/3/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Sasha Isenbergis a journalist at The Boston Globeand has written for Slate, The Washington Monthly, Inc., Philadelphia, and George, where he served as a contributing editor.



Introduction: World Gone Raw



The Freight Economy



Prince Edward Island, Canada The Day of the Flying Fish: The birth of modern sushi



Tokyo, Japan Tsukiji: Shopping at a global market



Narita, Japan The Hub: How Narita Airport became Japan's top fishing harbor



Tokyo, Japan Fast-Food Metropolis: Feeding sushi's hometown



The Food Economy



Los Angeles, California Are You Ready for Rice Sandwiches?: How sushi became the favorite food of the capital of the twentieth century



Paradise Island, Bahamas New Style: How a Japanese-Peruvian Angeleno created a global sushi vernacular



Austin, Texas Lone Star: The education of a sushi shokunin in cowboy country



The Fish Economy



Gloucester, Massachusetts Imperfect Storms: Weathering boom and bust in the hunt for Boston bluefin



Port Lincoln, Australia Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch: How the tuna cowboys became tuna barons



Madrid, Spain The Raw and the Crooked: On the trail of pirates, launderers, and tuna's black market



The Future Economy



Dalian, China Port of Call: A Japanese mogul plots to take the world's last sushi frontier


Epilogue Tokyo, Japan Raw Deals


Acknowledgments


Notes


Bibliography


Index