Well written. Like all of Kurlansky's books, filled with arcane history. Too much current political discourse for my tastes. Lots of recipes!

From the book cover:

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. Cod, it turns out, is the reason Europeons set sail across the Atlantic, and it is the only reason they could. What did the Vikings eat in icy Greenland and on the five expeditions to America recorded in the Icelandic sagas? Cod - frozen and dried in the frosty air, then broken into pieces and eaten like hardtack. 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.

Cod is a charming tour of history with all its economic forces laid bare and a fish story embellished with great gastronomic detail. It is also a tragic tale of environmental failure, of depleted fishing stocks where once the cod's numbers were legendary. In this deceptively whimsical biography of a fish, Mark Kurlansky brings a thousand years of human civilization into captivating focus.

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Sent in an m-bag to bybee in South Korea.

I have a feeling this is going to be a fascinating read!

Edited to add:
I really enjoyed this book and can't wait for others to read it. Although it was unintentional, I guess I theme-released by letting this book with its many recipes go in a restaurant!

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Inside the restaurant, on one of the bookshelves.

On a shelf at Beached Bar!