Eat Like a Fish: My Adventures as a Fisherman Turned Restorative Ocean Farmer
Bren Smith
What The Reviewers Say
RaveLibrary Journal
Smith's book aims to start original and meaningful conversations about where an industry, and people, can aspire to go. It has something for everyone; indeed, that is the philosophy Smith stands behind throughout: anyone can learn and do this new type of farming. A timely topic addressed in a fresh and inspirational way.
[Smith's] proposing—passionately, eloquently—that humans start eating seaweed ... The message underlying most of Eat Like a Fish couldn’t be clearer, although Smith is neither a browbeating author nor a repetitive one: the kind of food-trawling Smith used to do isn’t sustainable, was never sustainable, is ruinous. There are alternatives, and they’re in operation now, and ocean farming is one of them. And really, doesn’t a big colorful seaweed salad sound more inviting than some freeze-dried scorpions on a bed of soy?
This is a book about a man as well as a book about an idea, simultaneously sentimental and chillingly realistic. 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.
Smith combines memoir and sustainability treatise with mixed success ... the resulting mélange is overstuffed and disappointingly under-realized. However, the work does have its highlights ... This uneven but sometimes rewarding work shines a needed light on a lesser-known area of sustainable agriculture.
