The Zen of Fish: The Story of Sushi, from Samurai to Supermarket by Trevor Corson
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
I read the blinkist version of it first and really interested in knowing about it more. I love sushi so much, so I think I should read more this book where we can learn about Sushi through and through. I’ve learned in detail how to cut fish and makes it as sashimi, choose good fish according to the season where they reach their prime condition, how Nori (seaweed) and wasabi agriculture looked like, even how to eat sushi and behave at the sushi bar.
The thing is, I don’t really get the idea why the author needs to make it as a story based with some characters in it. I know that maybe he wanted to make it more approachable and easy to understand. But sometimes I found it dragging too far from the reason I read this book for.
Basically, reading this book feels like you read a story about a woman, named Katie, who needs new purpose in her life. Inspired by a comic book where the woman lead character was a sushi chef, she decided to learn how to be one and enroll to one of the oldest sushi chef school in California, US. So, in every chapter of this book, we learn all about the sushi, how to make it, the history of it, or type of fishes, during each of of Katie’s class. It’s well written actually, with a bunch of new information for us who want to learn deeper about sushi we love. But, I don’t think I need to know Katie’s personal struggle. Her struggle to catch up with her classmate in sushi class, though, was interesting and gave us how difficult it is to become a sushi chef. I think, that additional personal issues are the one that kept me from finishing this book quick and took about 1 year to finally continue reading this from where I left of.
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