The History of Cod
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Matts
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Thanks Matt
I whole heartily recommend "Cod" by Mark Kurlansky. It's concise and to the point.
For 500 years, this fish helped feed the western world and drive the New England economy, but in 50 years, we f'd it all up.
Like me, you probably learned history from the perspective of the fur trade. But the scale of the fur trade never made sense to me. I don't know why, but for some reason they don't teach the cod trade. They teach whaling, but not fishing.
My phone explains that in terms of economic scale, the cod trade dwarfs the fur trade, but the fur trade was important for prompting exploration and westward expansion and had less relation to the slave trade.
Funny that the Jamaican national dish is based on cod, but most Jamaican's have probably never seen a whole codfish.
I whole heartily recommend "Cod" by Mark Kurlansky. It's concise and to the point.
For 500 years, this fish helped feed the western world and drive the New England economy, but in 50 years, we f'd it all up.
Like me, you probably learned history from the perspective of the fur trade. But the scale of the fur trade never made sense to me. I don't know why, but for some reason they don't teach the cod trade. They teach whaling, but not fishing.
My phone explains that in terms of economic scale, the cod trade dwarfs the fur trade, but the fur trade was important for prompting exploration and westward expansion and had less relation to the slave trade.
Funny that the Jamaican national dish is based on cod, but most Jamaican's have probably never seen a whole codfish.
Thanks, I just ordered Mark Kurlansjy’s, COD. Looking forward to reading it.
The fur trade helped reshape the country also. Although not quite as profoundly as the Cod trade, it was still enormous in its own right. I recently read, Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune, by Anderson Cooper, whose mother was Gloria Vanderbilt. John Astor was the fur trade.
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Jamaicans make roti which is like a burrito. Chick peas, potatoes and cod. Absolutely delicious!
Yeah.....we effed up the cod fishery. At least I have some great memories.
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