The Zen of Fish: The Story of Sushi, from Samurai to Supermarket
by:
Trevor Corson (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780060883508 (0060883502)
Publish date: May 29th 2007
Publisher: Harper
Pages no: 322
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
History,
Cultural,
Food And Drink,
Food,
Book Club,
Science,
Culture,
Japan,
Cooking,
Foodie,
Food History
Forgive me if this “review” seems an agglomeration of tidbits, but I really enjoy little facts and pieces of information, and this book was riddled with them.I don’t like fish and frankly the idea of eating it raw, no matter how trendy or gussied up it might be, roils my stomach. Be that as it may,...
This book was later republished as The Story of Sushi: An Unlikely Saga of Raw Fish and Rice. Neither is an accurate representation of the actual content of the book. Expecting a nice history of sushi? You won't really get it. Instead, it's mostly about one particular class of an American sushi scho...