San Francisco Seafood
A History from Ocean to Table
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 2 April 2026
- ISBN 9798765145678
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages256 pages
- Size 230x158x22 mm
- Weight 480 g
- Language English 700
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Short description:
A deep dive into the history and evolution of San Francisco's seafood industry and what it teaches us about sustainability and cuisine today.
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A deep dive into the history and evolution of San Francisco's seafood industry and what it teaches us about sustainability and cuisine today.
For early San Franciscans, seafood was an important source of nutrition and a feature of social life, inspiring culinary developments that remain components in California cuisine more than a century later. Consumers interested in flavorful alternatives to meat and associated health benefits could follow recipes for nearly fifty types of marine life from state waters, such as salmon, flounder, and oysters. Others are no longer available, out-of-vogue, or simply forgotten. Further, overfishing and environmental damage decimated many local seafood stocks, providing a cautionary tale with global significance.
In San Francisco Seafood: A History from Ocean to Table, Paul Stangl traces the development of San Francisco's fisheries, seafood markets, cookery, and dining culture from the Gold Rush to the 1920s. Migrants from around the world imported fishing techniques and cuisines, then slowly adapted as they came to understand local resources and each other. Newcomers found the tastiest fish through trial and error and assimilated the ""best"" into a new cuisine. Different ethnic and occupational groups collaborated, fought, and learned from one another as they irreversibly altered the natural world around them. By the end of the First World War, San Francisco's seafood cuisine scarcely resembled that of the 1850s, due to cultural adaptation, technological advancements, and changes to the natural environment. It was no longer derivative of New England and France, but included influences from the Southern states, Asia, and South America.
San Francisco Seafood chronicles the city's transformation from a fish-barren town-where restaurants served canned, pickled, and dried fish from the East Coast-to a seafood-rich metropolis that harvested seafood from Mexico to Alaska. He emphasizes how the impacts on nature and local labor serve as a necessary cautionary tale for today's global seafood trade. This is a thorough and insightful history of a once emerging, and now essential, cuisine for food and history buffs alike.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Old Cultures, New Waters
Chapter 1: Gold Rush Explorations
Chapter 2: Contested Fisheries
Chapter 3: The Shellfisheries
Chapter 4: A Matter of Taste
Chapter 5: Chinese Fisheries and Culinary Influences
Chapter 6: Monsters and Other Non-Foods
Chapter 7: Health and Environment
Chapter 8: The Rise of the Consumer
Conclusion: A Seafood Legacy
Bibliography
Notes
Index
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