The Blue Food Cookbook: Delicious Seafood Recipes for a Sustainable Future—A Comprehensive Guide, from Buying and Preparing to Cooking Delicious Nutritious Blue Food Recipes

Andrew Zimmern and Barton Seaver present a cookbook tied to the PBS docuseries Hope in the Water. The book addresses common questions about seafood sustainability, including sourcing, preparation, and environmental impact. The cookbook includes a guide to buying and cooking seafood from oceans, lakes, and rivers sustainably, along with over 145 recipes. It covers culinary categories of fish, kitchen setup, pantry essentials, and cooking techniques. Recipes range from simple meals to dishes for entertaining, featuring tinned fish, shellfish, fillet fish, seaweed, and other blue food ingredients. Examples include Butternut Squash and Mussel Soup, Fish and Chips Salad, Seafood Pot Pie, Halibut with Green Goddess Dressing, Nashville Hot-Inspired Catfish, Miso Broiled Carp, Sockeye Salmon Enchiladas, Vietnamese Caramelized Shrimp, and Chocolate Chip Kelp Brownies. The book features a foreword from Shailene Woodley and includes photography and illustrations throughout.