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Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
by Mark Kurlansky
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- Hardcover
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- Blue boards. Near fine, in near fine dust wrapper
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New York: Walker and Company, 1997. Hardcover. Blue boards. Near fine, in near fine dust wrapper. 63 pages. 17.5 x 13.5 cm. Cod spans a thousand years and four continents. It tells of the extraordinary Basques, who first commercialized cod in medieval times; of Bartholomew Gosnold, who named Cape Cod in 1602; and of Clarence Birdseye, who founded an industry on frozen cod in the 1930s. It takes us from Nova Scotia and New England to Scandinavia, the coast of England, Brazil, and West Africa. And Cod brings us right up to the twenty-first century, with the facts of how this once ubiquitous fish is today faced with extinction, dramatizing a global conflict. Includes historical photographs, drawings, artifacts, and a collection of recipes from cooks of the Middle Ages to great contemporary chefs.
Synopsis
A delightful romp through history with all its economic forces laid bare, Cod is the biography of a single species of fish, but it may as well be a world history with this humble fish as its recurring main character. Cod, it turns out, is the reason Europeans set sail across the Atlantic, and it is the only reason they could. What did the Vikings eat in icy Greenland and on the five expeditions to America recorded in the Icelandic sagas? Cod, frozen and dried in the frosty air, then broken into pieces and eaten like hardtack. What was the staple of the medieval diet? Cod again, sold salted by the Basques, an enigmatic people with a mysterious, unlimited supply of cod. As we make our way through the centuries of cod history, we also find a delicious legacy of recipes, and the tragic story of environmental failure, of depleted fishing stocks where once their numbers were legendary. In this lovely, thoughtful history, Mark Kurlansky ponders the question: Is the fish that changed the world forever changed by the world's folly?
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- Cod
- Author
- Mark Kurlansky
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Blue boards. Near fine, in near fine dust wrapper
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Walker and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1997
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