American tuna [electronic resource] : the rise and fall of an improbable food / Andrew F. Smith.
Smith, Andrew F., 1946-
2012
TX385 .S65 2012eb
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Title American tuna [electronic resource] : the rise and fall of an improbable food / Andrew F. Smith.
Author Smith, Andrew F., 1946-
ISBN 9780520954151 (electronic book)
9780520261846
Publication Details Berkeley : University of California Press, c2012.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xiv, 242 p.)
Call Number TX385 .S65 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 641.3/92
Summary 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 sea" is both the subject and the backdrop for other facets of American history: U.S. foreign policy, immigration and environmental politics, and dietary trends. Smith recounts how tuna became a popular low-cost high-protein food beginning in 1903, when the first can rolled off the assembly line. By 1918, skyrocketing sales made it one of America's most popular seafoods. In the decades that followed, the American tuna industry employed thousands, yet at at mid-century production started to fade. Concerns about toxic levels of methylmercury, by-catch issues, and over-harvesting all contributed to the demise of the industry today, when only three major canned tuna brands exist in the United States, all foreign owned. A remarkable cast of characters- fishermen, advertisers, immigrants, epicures, and environmentalists, among many others-populate this fascinating chronicle of American tastes and the forces that influence them.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Description based on print version record.
Series California studies in food and culture ; 37.
Available in Other Form American tuna.
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Part I. The Rise
Angling for a Big Fish
Looks Like Chicken
Enemy Aliens
This Delicious Fish
Caucasians Who Have Tasted and Liked this Speciality
Part II. The Fall
Foreign Tuna
Tuna Wars
Porpoise Fishing
Parts Per Million
Epilogue
Appendix: Historical Tuna Recipes.

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