JOSH SCHONWALD got his first glimpse of the fish cobia in 2006. Schonwald, a freelance journalist, was intrigued by its freakish speed of growth – 10 times faster than the average fish – but what interested him most was a prediction by University of Miami aquaculturist Daniel Benetti, the first person to farm cobia successfully: “Cobia will be the next salmon.”
The remark made Schonwald wonder whether there was also a next chicken or papaya that would transform cuisine. In The Taste of Tomorrow, he reports on the future of food, from organic microfarming to genetic engineering to “transdermal nutrient patches”…
