About Paul Greenberg 

Paul Greenberg is the author of the James Beard Award winning New York Times bestseller Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food and a regular contributor to The New York Times Magazine, Book Review, and Opinion Page.  He has also written for National Geographic Magazine, GQ, The Times (of London), Vogue, and many other publications. In the last five years he has been both a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow and a W. K. Kellogg Foundation Food and Society Policy Fellow. 

A guest and commentator on public radio programs including Fresh Air and All Things Considered, Mr. Greenberg is also a fiction writer. His 2002 novel, Leaving Katya, was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection. Greenberg also lectures widely on issues of ocean sustainability at venues that range from Google to the United States Supreme Court to The Culinary Institute of America. He has lectured and reported extensively overseas with assignments in Russia, Ukraine, France, the Caucasus, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, the West Bank/Gaza, and many other locations around the world.

In his book, Four Fish, Paul Greenberg takes us on a culinary journey, investigating the four fish that dominate our menus—salmon, sea bass, cod, and tuna. Examining the forces that get fish to our dinner tables, Greenberg reveals our damaged relationship with the ocean and its wildlife. Just three decades ago nearly everything we ate from the sea was wild. Today, rampant overfishing and an unprecedented biotech revolution have brought us to a point where wild and farmed fish occupy equal parts of a complex marketplace. Four Fish helps us to navigate this new landscape, offering a way for us to move toward a future where healthy and sustainable seafood is the rule rather than the exception.

 Praise for Four Fish

"Important and stimulating. . . . [Greenberg] has constructed a book that, even as it lays out the grim and complicated facts of common seas ravaged by separate nations, also manages to sound a few hopeful and exciting notes about the future of fish, and with it, the future of civilizations in thrall to the bounty of the sea."

-Sam Sifton, New York Times Book Review

"An award-winning food journalist brilliantly dissects the relationship between humans and the four fish that dominate the seafood market. . . . The narrative is grounded in common sense and anchored by first-rate, on-scene reporting from the Yukon and Mekong Rivers, Lake Bardawil in the Sinai Peninsula and the waters off the coasts of Long Island, Greece, Hawaii and the Shetland Islands. Hugely informative, sincere and infectiously curious and enthusiastic."

-Kirkus (starred review)

"Finally we have learned that food is best when produced on a small scale in accordance with the rhythms of our planet. Paul Greenberg's warm and witty Four Fish takes this concept to the ocean. Seafood deserves the same kind of respect and political awareness as food from the land. Maybe more."

-Alice Waters