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
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-236) and index
