Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
Mark Kurlansky, 1997
Read in 2025.03
check synopsis and details amazon.com
🔽 Intro and review summary 🔽
✔ World history and wars around cod
✔ Exciting and revealing, unknown history
✔ Some recipe at the end
★★★★★ Nobody had imagined that one day, cod would reduce in number and lead us to wars. We had to expose our ugly selves, all because of, yes, cod.
🔽 Book review and notes 🔽
Being a Japanese person, cod is not something I understood fully.
It's the fish and chips, northern Europe seem to fish a lot, and in southern Europe they eat dried fish as specialty.
And yet that IS the history, Spanish eat a lot of cods that they don't have nearby, why. And as always things are so exaggerated with the modern technology that the cod, which thought to be forever plentiful, is decreasing in number and wars occur, and xenophobia will triumph because it's always someone else's fault that there's less fish.
Funny yet totally understandable that the most of the Atlantic world eat non-fresh cod, because that's how it fed the mass, and they last long.
Expensive bits to the rich, and cheap versions to the slaves in the West Indies' slaves.
It's written in 1997, today it's more commonly known that the most environmentally harmful act is the trawling, scooping up everything from the bottom of the sea.
It also leaves the plastic rubbish which we should actually focus more, than plastic straws.
Fishermen are not the enemy, the big corporations are, as always.
It's written in 1997, today it's more commonly known that the most environmentally harmful act is the trawling, scooping up everything from the bottom of the sea.
It also leaves the plastic rubbish which we should actually focus more, than plastic straws.
Fishermen are not the enemy, the big corporations are, as always.
🔽 Where to buy / Summary and info 🔽
●●● Amazon.com (US) ●●●
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World Paperback
Amazon.co.uk (UK)
Cod Paperback
Amazon.it (Italy)
Cod Paperback (Inglese)
Merluzzo. Storia del pesce che ha cambiato il mondo Paperback
赤パンの本棚 akapan's bookshelf 