![]() ![]() 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. Mark Kurlansky’s third work of nonfiction, and winner of the 1999 James Beard Award, 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.Ĭod, it turns out, is the reason the Vikings could set out for icy Greenland and on the five expeditions to America recorded in the Icelandic sagas. ![]() Dating back to ~1000 AD when cod was discovered by the Vikings, here starts the story of Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World. ![]()
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