11 best-selling food books like Eat Like a Fish: My Adventures as a Fisherman Turned Restorative Ocean Farmer by Bren Smith

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Eat Like a Fish: My Adventures as a Fisherman Turned Restorative Ocean Farmer

By: Bren Smith

4.39

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

JAMES BEARD AWARD WINNER IACP Cookbook Award nomineeIn the face of apocalyptic climate change, a fo…

"It's stunning how, under the weight of ecological collapse, a hundred years of culture can be gutted overnight. The metronome of our music and poetry isn't the ocean, it's fish. With cod gone meaning was swept away, dignity soon replaced with anger."

-Bren Smith, Eat Like a Fish: My Adventures as a Fisherman Turned Restorative Ocean Farmer

"It's stunning how, under the weight of ecological collapse, a hundred years of culture can be gutted overnight. The metronome of our music and poetry isn't the ocean, it's fish. With cod gone meaning was swept away, dignity soon replaced with anger."

-Bren Smith, Eat Like a Fish: My Adventures as a Fisherman Turned Restorative Ocean Farmer

If you liked the food plot in Eat Like a Fish: My Adventures as a Fisherman Turned Restorative Ocean Farmer by Bren Smith , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. 32 Yolks: From My Mother's Table to Working the Line

By: Eric Ripert

3.95

Format: 247 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Hailed by Anthony Bourdain as “heartbreaking, horrifying, poignant, and… read more

Similar categories in Eric Ripert's 32 Yolks: From My Mother's Table to Working the Line book and Bren Smith's Eat Like a Fish: My Adventures as a Fisherman Turned Restorative Ocean Farmer

  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"the important thing, Jacques instructed me, was to get the pan hot as you could before adding the meat - that, and always give good wine to your butcher."

-Eric Ripert, 32 Yolks: From My Mother's Table to Working the Line

"my father...there was never any mistaking his love for me. When I walked into the room, his eyes lit up and he wrapped me in his arms as if it was Christmas morning and I was the best gift imaginable."

-Eric Ripert, 32 Yolks: From My Mother's Table to Working the Line

"We were all hard on our commis because we were always afraid, and cruelty is one of fear's most common by-products. It would take me a very long time to unlearn those methods of surviving under press…"

-Eric Ripert, 32 Yolks: From My Mother's Table to Working the Line

"Buth this is the thing, my child, " Madame Amparo continued. "You are headed for the same night sky. When it's your turn to burn brightly, remember where you have been. Be careful not to harm all of …"

-Eric Ripert, 32 Yolks: From My Mother's Table to Working the Line

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2. The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture

By: Wendell Berry

4.34

Format: 246 pages, Paperback

Since its publication by Sierra Club Books in 1977, The Unsettling of America has been recognized a… read more

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  • food
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
"The crisis of community has its source in the corruption of character."

-Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture

"If we do not live where we work and when we work we are wasting our lives and our work too."

-Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture

"If we removed the status and compensation from the destructive exploits we classify as “manly,"

-Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture

"The specialists are profiting too well from the symptoms, evidently, to be concerned about cures—just as the myth of imminent cure (by some “breakthrough"

-Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture

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3. Shucked: Life on a New England Oyster Farm

By: Erin Byers Murray

1.50

Format: None pages,

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  • food
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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4. Claire DeWitt and the Bohemian Highway

By: Sara Gran

2.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The eagerly awaited second book in the buzzed-about Claire DeWitt mystery series, featuring "one of… read more

Similar categories in Sara Gran's Claire DeWitt and the Bohemian Highway book and Bren Smith's Eat Like a Fish: My Adventures as a Fisherman Turned Restorative Ocean Farmer

  • audiobook
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5. Babycakes (Tales of the City, #4)

By: Armistead Maupin

5.00

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

The characters that filled the pages of the three earlier Tales of the City books with love and lau… read more

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6. The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food

By: Dan Barber

3.32

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

Barber explores the evolution of American food from the 'first plate,' or industrially-produced, me… read more

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  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • food
  • environment
  • science
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7. Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir

By: Eddie Huang

4.19

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

"Long before I met him, I was a fan of his writing, and his merciless wit. He's bigger than food."-… read more

Similar categories in Eddie Huang's Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir book and Bren Smith's Eat Like a Fish: My Adventures as a Fisherman Turned Restorative Ocean Farmer

  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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8. Under the Sea Wind

By: Rachel Carson , Linda Lear

3.50

Format: 185 pages,

read more

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  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science

9. The Sea Around Us

By: Rachel Carson , Ann H. Zwinger

3.79

Format: 704 pages,

The Sea Around Usis one of the most remarkably successful books ever written about the natural worl… read more

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10. Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming

By: Paul Hawken

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

- New York Timesbestseller - The 100 most substantive solutions to reverse global warming, based on… read more

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11. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

By: Robin Wall Kimmerer

4.04

Format: 226 pages, Hardcover

As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer as been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of sci… read more

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12. Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman

By: Yvon Chouinard

3.25

Format: 198 pages, Paperback

In his long-awaited memoir, Yvon Chouinard-legendary climber, businessman, environmentalist, and fo… read more

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13. American Catch: The Fight for Our Local Seafood

By: Paul Greenberg

3.83

Format: None pages, Hardcover

INVESTIGATIVE REPORTERS & EDITORS Book Award, Finalist 2014 "Greenberg's breezy, engaging style wea… read more

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14. Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-scale Permaculture

By: Toby Hemenway

4.00

Format: None pages,

read more

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15. Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses

By: Robin Wall Kimmerer

3.87

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

In this series of linked personal essays, Robin Wall Kimmerer leads general readers and scientists … read more

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16. Salmon Wars: The Dark Underbelly of Our Favorite Fish

By: Douglas Frantz

3.80

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent and a former private investigator dive deep into the murky w… read more

Similar categories in Douglas Frantz's Salmon Wars: The Dark Underbelly of Our Favorite Fish book and Bren Smith's Eat Like a Fish: My Adventures as a Fisherman Turned Restorative Ocean Farmer

  • nature
  • science
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • audiobook
Cover of Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet by Ben  Goldfarb

17. Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet

By: Ben Goldfarb

4.45

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times Notable Book of 2023 and Editors' Choice • A Science News Favorite Book of 2023 • … read more

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  • audiobook
  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
Cover of Stronghold: One Man's Quest to Save the World's Wild Salmon by Tucker Malarkey

18. Stronghold: One Man's Quest to Save the World's Wild Salmon

By: Tucker Malarkey

4.29

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Mountains Beyond Mountains and The Orchid Thief, Stronghold is Tucker Malarkey’… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
Cover of Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis by Annie Proulx

19. Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis

By: Annie Proulx

3.65

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A lifelong acolyte of the natural world, Annie Proulx brings her witness and research to the subjec… read more

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  • nature
  • science
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • audiobook
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20. Dirt to Soil: One Family's Journey Into Regenerative Agriculture

By: Gabe Brown

4.46

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Gabe Brown didn't set out to change the world when he first started working alongside his father-in… read more

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  • science
  • food
  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World by John Vaillant

21. Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World

By: John Vaillant

4.35

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A stunning account of a colossal wildfire that collided with a city and a panoramic exploration of … read more

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  • nature
  • science
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • audiobook
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22. Eat Like a Fish: My Adventures as a Fisherman Turned Restorative Ocean Farmer

By: Bren Smith

4.39

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

JAMES BEARD AWARD WINNER IACP Cookbook Award nomineeIn the face of apocalyptic climate change, a fo… read more

Similar categories in Bren Smith's Eat Like a Fish: My Adventures as a Fisherman Turned Restorative Ocean Farmer book and Bren Smith's Eat Like a Fish: My Adventures as a Fisherman Turned Restorative Ocean Farmer

  • science
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • food
  • climate change
  • environment
  • nature
  • audiobook
"It's stunning how, under the weight of ecological collapse, a hundred years of culture can be gutted overnight. The metronome of our music and poetry isn't the ocean, it's fish. With cod gone meaning…"

-Bren Smith, Eat Like a Fish: My Adventures as a Fisherman Turned Restorative Ocean Farmer

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23. Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey

By: James Rebanks

4.43

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

As a boy, James Rebanks's grandfather taught him to work the land the old way. Their family farm in… read more

Similar categories in James Rebanks's Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey book and Bren Smith's Eat Like a Fish: My Adventures as a Fisherman Turned Restorative Ocean Farmer

  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
"There were profoundly important questions about the potential effects of each new technology that it was nobody's job to ask or answer. There was no mechanism for farmers or ecologists to judge wheth…"

-James Rebanks, Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey

"There is something about planting trees that feels good. If you have done it well, it will outlast you and leave the world a little richer and more beautiful because of your efforts. Planting a tree …"

-James Rebanks, Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey

"Agricultural education is still overwhelmingly about change and innovation, and "disruption," not what is sustainable and what will work in the long run. From the modernizing perspective, the student…"

-James Rebanks, Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey

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24. All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis

By: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson

4.45

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Provocative and illuminating essays from women at the forefront of the climate movement who are har… read more

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  • science
  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon by Kevin Fedarko

25. A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon

By: Kevin Fedarko

4.36

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

A deeply moving account ever of walking the Grand Canyon, a highly dangerous, life-changing 750-mil… read more

Similar categories in Kevin Fedarko's A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon book and Bren Smith's Eat Like a Fish: My Adventures as a Fisherman Turned Restorative Ocean Farmer

  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
"You were made and set here to give voice to this, your own astonishment. -Annie Dillard"

-Kevin Fedarko, A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon

Cover of The Age of Wood: Our Most Useful Material and the Construction of Civilization by Roland Ennos

26. The Age of Wood: Our Most Useful Material and the Construction of Civilization

By: Roland Ennos

3.70

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking examination of the role that wood and trees have played in our global ecosystem—in… read more

Similar categories in Roland Ennos's The Age of Wood: Our Most Useful Material and the Construction of Civilization book and Bren Smith's Eat Like a Fish: My Adventures as a Fisherman Turned Restorative Ocean Farmer

  • audiobook
  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
Cover of The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan

27. The Death and Life of the Great Lakes

By: Dan Egan

4.34

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

The Great Lakes―Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario, and Superior―hold 20 percent of the world’s supply … read more

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  • nature
  • science
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • audiobook
"A normal lake is knowable. A Great Lake can hold all the mysteries of an ocean, and then some."

-Dan Egan, The Death and Life of the Great Lakes

"Sandy beaches still rim the lakes, but if Lake Michigan, for example, were drained it would now be possible to walk almost the entire 100 miles between Wisconsin and Michigan on a bed of trillions up…"

-Dan Egan, The Death and Life of the Great Lakes

"A thing is right when it tends to promote the integrity, beauty and stability of the biotic community," famed Wisconsin naturalist Aldo Leopold wrote in 1949, which happened to be teh peak of the lam…"

-Dan Egan, The Death and Life of the Great Lakes

"A single Seaway ship can hold up to six million gallons of vessel-steadying ballast water that gets discharged at a port in exchange for cargo. And that water, scientists would learn after it was too…"

-Dan Egan, The Death and Life of the Great Lakes

Cover of Seaweed Chronicles: A World at the Water’s Edge by Susan Hand Shetterly

28. Seaweed Chronicles: A World at the Water’s Edge

By: Susan Hand Shetterly

3.87

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

“You might not expect unfettered passion on the topic of seaweed, but Shetterly is such a great sto… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
Cover of Seaweed Collectors Handbook by Miek Zwamborn

29. Seaweed Collectors Handbook

By: Miek Zwamborn

3.91

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Seaweed is so familiar and yet its names - pepper dulse, sea lettuce, bladderwrack - are largely un… read more

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  • food
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
Cover of The Future of the Responsible Company: What We've Learned from Patagonia's First 50 Years by Vincent Stanley

30. The Future of the Responsible Company: What We've Learned from Patagonia's First 50 Years

By: Vincent Stanley

4.29

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Simple but powerful advice on how and why to rethink your business structure in a time when traditi… read more

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  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • nature
Cover of The New Fish: The Truth about Farmed Salmon and the Consequences We Can No Longer Ignore by Simen Saetre

31. The New Fish: The Truth about Farmed Salmon and the Consequences We Can No Longer Ignore

By: Simen Saetre

4.60

Format: 365 pages, Paperback

Eat more fish, the doctors say. But is the salmon you are consuming really healthy?    In the early… read more

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  • nature
  • science
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • audiobook

16 best-selling audiobook books like Eat Like a Fish: My Adventures as a Fisherman Turned Restorative Ocean Farmer by Bren Smith

Transform Your Habits

32 Yolks: From My Mother's Table to Working the Line

Eric Ripert

3.95

Transform Your Habits

Claire DeWitt and the Bohemian Highway

Sara Gran

2.50

Transform Your Habits

Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir

Eddie Huang

4.19

Transform Your Habits

Salmon Wars: The Dark Underbelly of Our Favorite Fish

Douglas Frantz

3.80

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8 must-read history books like Seaweed Collectors Handbook by Miek Zwamborn

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The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean

David Abulafia

3.96

Transform Your Habits

Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

Merlin Sheldrake

4.35

Transform Your Habits

Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis

Annie Proulx

3.65

Transform Your Habits

River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Road

Cat Jarman

4.06

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