If you were fascinated by the Vanity Fair article, If You Knew Sushi, you'll like these books, too. (One of them is mentioned in the VF article.)

As for my children, they eat sushi three or four times a week. They developed a taste for sushi when they were living in Nashville, Tenn., which, though it lacks any convincing French or Italian restaurants, has several fine sushi bars.

See, for example, Ru-San's, Koto, Samurai, Sonobana, and perhaps Sam's, too.

... What we now think of as sushi — Edo-mae nigiri — was invented as fast food for laborers.

... The chapter on rice, a subject that Americans take for granted, is itself worth the price of the book.

In 19th-century Tokyo, tuna was regarded as an inferior fish.

Over the course of two decades, "the average price for bluefin tuna paid to Atlantic fisherman rose by 10,000 percent."

"To eat sushi is to display ... full engagement in world commerce."

Sushi Books by Trevor Corson and Sasha Issenberg