From The Sea

Food writer and BBC journalist Dan Saladino travels the world's coastlines and fishing communities to document marine food traditions on the edge of extinction. From European oyster beds to Asian seaweed harvesters, from Mediterranean fish markets to Arctic communities dependent on marine mammals, he maps the extraordinary diversity of how humans have harvested and celebrated food from the sea — and how quickly that diversity is disappearing.

Industrial fishing, climate change, and the homogenization of global food systems are threatening not just fish populations but entire cultural heritages built around them. Each chapter treats a specific tradition — Japanese katsuobushi, Scottish herring, Polynesian reef fish — as both a culinary subject and a lens into broader environmental and social collapse. A passionate, rigorously reported case for why these traditions matter, and what we stand to lose.