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

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

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