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Cod (1997) (edit title/settings)

A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World

by Mark Kurlansky (Author) (edit contributors)

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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... read more

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  • “Wars have been fought over it, revolutions have been spurred by it, national diets have been based on it, economies have depended on it, and the settlement of North America was driven by it”
  • “Soon there would be another idea: Frozen Food.... the entire nature of commercial fishing would change.”
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  • Wich is an Anglo-Saxon word meaning “a place that has salt,” and all the English towns whose names end in wich were at one time salt producers.
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  • Cod became almost a religious icon—a mythological crusader for Christian observance.
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  • New England merchants of the cod trade were deeply involved in slavery, not only because they supplied the plantation system but also because they facilitated the trade in Africans. In West Africa, slaves could be purchased with cured cod, and to this day there is still a West African market for salt cod and stockfish.
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  • In reality, catches were increasing not from an abundance of fish but because the efficiency of a modern trawler fleet made it possible to locate the sectors with remaining cod populations and systematically clean them out.
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  • Then the British Crown, after letting New Englanders taste free trade for more than a century, decided in 1733 to regulate molasses as a key step toward reasserting its control over commerce. Instead the measure turned out to be one of the first inadvertent steps toward dismantling the British Empire.
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  • But to the commercial fisherman, there have always been five kinds of gadiform: the Atlantic cod, the haddock, the pollock, the whiting, and the hake. Increasingly, a sixth gadiform must be added to the list, the Pacific cod, Gadus macrocephalus, a smaller version of the Atlantic cod whose flesh is judged of only slightly lesser quality.
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  • Codfish include ten families with more than 200 species. Almost all live in cold salt water in the Northern Hemisphere.
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  • Shipments of salt cod followed, and soon salt cod, slaves, and molasses became commercially linked.
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  • Cod meat has virtually no fat (.3 percent) and is more than 18 percent protein, which is unusually high even for fish. And when cod is dried, the more than 80 percent of its flesh that is water having evaporated, it becomes concentrated protein—almost 80 percent protein.
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  • A small group of religious dissidents who had fled England were staring at a map in their Dutch refuge and had noticed a small hook of land that was labeled with an intriguing name—Cape Cod.
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First Sentence edit see section history

A medieval fisherman is said to have hauled up a three-foot-long cod, which was common enough at the time.

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This book is in Book Lust by Nancy Pearl. (authoritative list)

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  1. Mark Kurlansky (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Walker & Company
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1997
ISBN: 0802713262
Page Count: 304

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