# Following Fish

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- Book: [Following Fish](https://www.bookquiver.com/samanth-subramanian/following-fish) ([Following Fish.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/samanth-subramanian/following-fish.md))
- Authors: [Samanth Subramanian](https://www.bookquiver.com/samanth-subramanian)
- Publisher: atlantic_books
- ISBN: 978-08-5789-603-2
- Published: 2013-08-01
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Shortlisted for the André Simon Food and Drink book awards In a coastline as long and diverse as India’s, fish inhabit the heart of many worlds – food of course, but also culture, commerce, sport, history and society. Journeying along the edges of the peninsula, Samanth Subramanian delivers a kaleidoscope of extraordinary stories. Following Fish conducts rich journalistic investigations of, among others, the use of fish to treat asthmatics in Hyderabad; of the preparation and the process of eating West Bengal’s prized hilsa ; of the ancient art of building fishing boats in Gujarat; of the fiery cuisine and the singular spirit of Kerala’s toddy shops; of the food and the lives of Mumbai’s first peoples; of the history of an old Catholic fishing community in Tamil Nadu; and of the hunt for the world’s fastest fish near Goa. Pulsating with pleasure, adventure and discovery, and tempered by nostalgia and loss, Following Fish reveals a series of unknown Indias in a book as revealing of the subcontinent as any three times its length.