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American tuna : the rise and fall of an improbable food /
In a lively account of the American tuna industry over the past century, celebrated food writer and scholar Andrew F. Smith relates how tuna went from being sold primarily as a fertilizer to becoming the most commonly consumed fish in the country. In American Tuna, the so-called "chicken of the...
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2012.
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| Series: | California studies in food and culture ;
37. |
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. The Rise
- Angling for a Big Fish
- Looks Like Chicken
- Enemy Aliens
- This Delicious Fish
- Caucasians Who Have Tasted and Liked this Specialty
- Part II. The Fall
- Foreign Tuna
- Tuna Wars
- Porpoise Fishing
- Parts Per Million
- Epilogue
- Appendix: Historical Tuna Recipes.