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Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World

Mark Kurlansky

How did one humble fish drive explorers, wars and whole economies, and what happens to a trade when the fish run out?

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Author
Mark Kurlansky

Why read it

  • You will see how a single cheap food can shape trade routes, wars and settlements
  • You will learn why a resource that seems endless can collapse, and why communities keep asking when it will return instead of whether
  • You will understand how food ties people to place and identity, from Basque tales to Norwegian clubs

Who it is for

  • A cook curious why a plain fish matters to so many cuisines
  • An environmental manager watching a shared resource run down
  • A history lover who enjoys food as a way into world events

Contents

  1. part one - A Fish Tale
  2. 1: The Race to Codlandia
  3. THE MEDIEVAL COD CRAZE
  4. 2: With Mouth Wide Open
  5. THE WELL-COOKED HEAD
  6. 3: The Cod Rush
  7. THE SHAME OF IT
  8. 4: 1620: The Rock and the Cod
  9. THE CHOWDER AND DANIEL WEBSTER
  10. 5: Certain Inalienable Rights
  11. WEST INDIA IN THE WEST INDIES
  12. 6: A Cod War Heard‘Round the World
  13. A LINGERING MEMORY
  14. part two - Limits
  15. 7: A Few New Ideas Versus Nine Million Eggs
  16. DELIGHTING IN HENCOD ROES
  17. 8: The Last Two Ideas
  18. NEW ENGLAND VISIT
  19. 9: Iceland Discovers the Finite Universe
  20. A NEW DANISH YEAR
  21. 10: Three Wars to Close the Open Sea
  22. BABES IN ICELAND
  23. part three - The Last Hunters
  24. 11: Requiem for the Grand Banks
  25. SUNDAY IN NEWFOUNDLAND
  26. 12: The Dangerous Waters of Nature’s Resilience
  27. THE PARIS DEBUT OF FRESH SALT COD
  28. 13: Bracing for the Spanish Armada
  29. BACALAO-NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL
  30. 14: Bracing for the Canadian Armada
  31. A Cook’s Tale
  32. THE CORRECT WAY TO FLUSH A COD
  33. BEAT IT
  34. KILL IT: LUTEFISK
  35. DIVERSIONARY TACTIC
  36. THE BAD NEWS AT WALDEN POND
  37. MARBLEHEAD
  38. ICELANDIC WISDOM
  39. THE ISLAND HEAD
  40. SPARE PARTS
  41. Tongues and Checks
  42. THE BASQUE TONGUE: KOKOTCHAS DE BACALAO VERDE
  43. FOR LENT IN GREECE: TARAMOSALATA
  44. Down to Skin and Bones
  45. CHOWDER
  46. FISH CHOWDER: A NEW APPROACH
  47. THE LAST TERRE-NEUVAS
  48. THE DIASPORA OF THE WEST INDIA CURE
  49. WEST AFRICA: STOCKFISH AND EGUZI
  50. .JAMAICA: CODFISH RUN DOWN
  51. Jamaica: ACKEE AND SALTFISH
  52. PUERTO RICO: SERENATA DE BACALAO
  53. GUADELOUPE: FEROCE
  54. THE GREAT FRENCH DISGUISE
  55. BALLS
  56. NEW ENGLAND: BETTER START ON SATURDAY
  57. FRANCE: MORUE EN CROQUETTES
  58. ITALY: SALTED COD CROQUETTES
  59. PORTUGAL: SONHOS DE BACALHAU
  60. PUERTO RICO : BACALAITOS

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