Reading and Discussion of Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food
With author Paul Greenberg
August 9, 7:30 PM
Powell’s City of Books, 1005 West Burnside, Portland, OR
Fifty years ago nearly all the seafood we ate was wild. Today farmed fish and shellfish represent nearly an equal part of a complex and confusing marketplace.
In Four Fish, New York Times Magazine writer Paul Greenberg journeys to the far corners of the world to find out what is good, what is bad, and what is just strange about four varieties of fish (bass, cod, salmon and tuna) and their futures in the wild and on the farm. Greenberg uses their stories to show how we can start to heal the oceans and fight for a world where healthy and sustainable seafood is the rule rather than the exception.
Los Angeles Times: “The signal quality of Greenberg’s book is its genial and sometimes despairing struggle with contradiction. Not many who argue for our planet’s endangered species also write the thrill of hunting them. Like the fish he once hooked, he plunges away and is reeled back. ‘Four Fish’ is a serious and searching study. Written with wit and beauty, it is also play.”
