false 1125162 1 Located only blocks from Tokyo's glittering Ginza, Tsukiji--the world's largest marketplace for seafood--is a prominent landmark, well known but little understood by most Tokyoites: a supplier for countless fishmongers and sushi chefs, and a popular and fascinating destination for foreign tourists. Early every morning, the worlds of hi-tech and pre-tech trade noisily converge as tens of thousands of tons of seafood from every ocean of the world quickly change hands in Tsukiji's auctions and in the marketplace's hundreds of tiny stalls. In this absorbing firsthand study, Theodore C. Bestor--who has spent a dozen years doing fieldwork at fish markets and fishing ports in Japan, North America, Korea, and Europe--explains the complex social institutions that organize Tsukiji's auctions and the supply lines leading to and from them and illuminates trends of Japan's economic growth, changes in distribution and consumption, and the increasing globalization of the seafood trade. As he brings to life the sights and sounds of the marketplace, he reveals Tsukiji's rich internal culture, its place in Japanese cuisine, and the mercantile traditions that have shaped the marketplace since the early seventeenth century. 1112268 12 7 2004 Tsukiji: The Fish Market at the Center of the World (California Studies in Food and Culture, 11) total:16|5:2|4:7|3:5|2:2|1:0| 16 57 45 2 3 0 false false Sat Oct 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 27 20:37:12 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 27 20:41:02 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Aug 27 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 27 21:12:23 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 27 21:14:02 -0700 2008 more...]]> 0 0 false false Mon Oct 26 09:19:41 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 26 09:20:26 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Oct 17 10:45:51 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 17 10:46:00 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Sep 13 15:47:33 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 13 15:47:33 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Aug 01 19:23:04 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 01 19:23:04 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Tue Jul 28 20:05:29 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 28 20:05:29 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Jul 11 10:35:04 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 11 10:35:04 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Jul 04 05:38:04 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 04 05:38:04 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Jul 02 10:35:43 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 02 10:35:46 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sat Jun 13 22:43:23 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 13 22:43:23 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Apr 28 20:36:15 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 28 20:36:16 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Apr 13 20:22:00 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 13 20:22:00 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Sun Mar 22 21:33:30 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 22 21:33:30 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Mar 17 18:40:28 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 17 18:40:28 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Thu Mar 12 20:03:50 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 12 20:03:50 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sun Mar 08 11:34:57 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 08 11:34:57 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sat Jan 24 14:28:30 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 24 14:28:30 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Mon Dec 29 09:45:47 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 29 09:45:51 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Wed Dec 17 12:04:38 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 17 12:04:43 -0800 2008