Tsukiji: The Fish Market at the Center of the World

Review

This was a very interesting book. Bestor clearly spent a huge amount of time at the market and his observations of the market are very astute. The book does fall a little bit into an awkward middle ground between academic work and generally interest non-fiction. Bestor encourages readers to skip chapters if they're not interested. I did not do that but I did skip over some passages that were not that interesting to me. One side effect of the book being written with skipping in mind is there is a little more repetition than I'd like with the same concept or word explained the same way in several chapters. Overall I'm glad I read the book and I'm certainly looking forward to visiting the market when I go to Tokyo. Reading this in 2016 was interesting as much of the book covers the struggles to modernize and/or move Tsukiji. Until this week that was scheduled to finally happen in November. However it was just delayed again.

Consumption history1

1. Aug 30, 2016

   Completed★ 4 / 5

   physical