![]() ![]() ![]() He embellishes his story with gastronomic detail, blending in recipes and lore from the Middle Ages to the present. He chronicles the fifteenth-century politics of the Hanseatic League and the cod wars of the sixteenth and twentieth centuries. From the Vikings, who pursued the codfish across the Atlantic, and the enigmatic Basques, who first commercialized it in medieval times, to Bartholomew Gosnold, who named Cape Cod in 1602, and Clarence Birdseye, who founded an industry on frozen cod in the 1930s, Mark Kurlansky introduces the explorers, merchants, writers, chefs, and of course the fishermen, whose lives have interwoven with this prolific fish. Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-282) and indexĬod spans a thousand years and four continents. Originally published : Walker and Co., ©1997 ![]()
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