
Eat Like a Fish
My Adventures as a Fisherman Turned Restorative Ocean Farmer
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Bren Smith
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Bren Smith
Part memoir, part manifesto, in Eat Like a Fish Bren Smith - a former commercial fisherman turned restorative ocean farmer - shares a bold new vision for the future of food: seaweed.
Through tales that span from his childhood in Newfoundland to his early years on the high seas aboard commercial fishing trawlers, from pioneering new forms of ocean farming to surfing the frontiers of the food movement, Smith introduces the world of sea-based agriculture and advocates getting ocean vegetables onto American plates (there are thousands of edible varieties in the sea!).
Here he shows how we can transform our food system while enjoying delicious, nutritious, locally grown food and how restorative ocean farming has the potential to create millions of new jobs and protect our planet in the face of climate change, rising populations, and finite food resources. Also included are recipes from acclaimed chefs Brooks Headley and David Santos.
Written with the humor and swagger of a fisherman telling a late-night tale, this is a monumental work of deeply personal food policy that will profoundly change the way we think about what we eat.
Includes a PDF of sea greens recipes by chefs Brooks Headley and David Santos.
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Critic reviews
“Bren Smith is a hero of ours - not just for his ingenious vertical farming of kelp and shellfish in the Thimble Islands, but for facing squarely the root causes of one crisis with many symptoms: climate change, desertification, obesity and hunger. This book shows us new ways to grow food and make a living that can both heal the planet and make life more satisfying.” (Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia)
“What a remarkable book! Bren Smith has a (wild) life story to recount, a novel food-growing technique to describe, and a planet to help save. He’s a deft enough writer to pull it all off, with a wry joy that left me (more than usually) hopeful about our future.”(Bill McKibben, New York Times best-selling author of Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet and Radio Free Vermont)
“Part memoir, part treatise on the life of a professional fisherman, part manual for the future of eating worldwide, this unique book cannot help but make readers think long and hard about the fate of the earth as it faces the challenges of global warming and the outlook for feeding the planet.... Smith has now become a visionary leader in cultivating what may turn out to be a primary source of the world’s food. This is a book about a man as well as a book about an idea.... Readers will learn more about ocean farming here than they learned about whaling from Moby Dick, and will walk away with a handful of practical, tasty seaweed recipes to boot.” (Booklist, starred review)
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Life changing
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Geat story, even better history in the making
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Interesting view into another world
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I came across this book in a deliberate search for exploring sea green farming, harvest, and use. Although it is focused on cold water farming while I live in tropical pacific Mexico, it gave me a great introduction and inspires me to look further and start experimenting.
Great intro to sea greens farming
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In extraterrestrial land…
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Life Changing for all of us.
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highly recommended!
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The development of ocean farming and foods
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Impressed and hopeful
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A hopeful book in the midst of the doom and gloom
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