Everywhere I travel in the world there seems to be a sushi bar awaiting me. Now, for the first time, I understand the culinary phenomenon with informed eyes and stomach. Sasha Issenberg's The Sushi Economy is a riveting and witty inquiry into the raw fish explosion. As a non-fiction stylist, he's first-rate. A must read! (Douglas Brinkley, Professor of History at Tulane University, bestselling author of The Great Deluge)

Sasha Issenberg has produced an exquisite specimen of culinary anthropology--and literary journalism and political economy. He reveals fascinating wrinkles in the global economy with wit and color. (Franklin Foer, bestselling author of How Soccer Explains the World)

Sasha Issenberg's The Sushi Economy is a perfectly timed book about two important topics. Like a good piece of sushi, it's simple, complex, and full of delicious surprises. (Mark Bittman, author of The Best Recipes in the World and How to Cook Everything)

This is one of those rare books that reveals a vast and fascinating system behind something you've entirely taken for granted. The Sushi Economy is not just a book about our growing appetite for raw fish -- it's a brilliant look at globalization in practice. (Steven Johnson, bestselling author of The Ghost Map and Everything Bad is Good for You)