Title American tuna : the rise and fall of an improbable food / Andrew F. Smith.

Publication Info.	Berkeley : University of California Press, [2012]
	©2012

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Description	1 online resource (xiv, 242 pages).
Series	California studies in food and culture ; 37
	California studies in food and culture ; 37.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-236) and index.
Note	Print version record.
Contents	Part I The Rise -- 1. Angling for a Big Fish -- 2. Looks Like Chicken -- 3. Enemy Aliens -- 4. This Delicious Fish -- 5. Caucasians Who Have Tasted and Liked This Speciality -- Part II he Fall -- 6. Foreign Tuna -- 7. Tuna Wars -- 8. Porpoise Fishing -- 9. Parts Per Million -- Epilogue.
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.
Subject	Tuna -- United States -- History.
	Canned tuna -- United States -- History.
	Cooking (Tuna)
	Fish as food -- United States -- History.
	Tuna fisheries -- Environmental aspects -- History.
	Tuna fisheries -- History.
	Tuna industry -- History.
	COOKING -- General.
	TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Food Science.
	COOKING -- History.
	Canned tuna. (OCoLC)fst00845827
	Cooking (Tuna) (OCoLC)fst01754921
	Fish as food. (OCoLC)fst00925843
	Tuna. (OCoLC)fst01158814
	Tuna fisheries. (OCoLC)fst01158823
	Tuna fisheries -- Environmental aspects. (OCoLC)fst01158827
	Tuna industry. (OCoLC)fst01158846
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form:	Print version: Smith, Andrew F., 1946- American tuna. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2012 9780520261846 (DLC) 2012000822 (OCoLC)773278527
ISBN	9780520954151 (electronic bk.)
	0520954157 (electronic bk.)

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