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Copyright 䉷 1950 by Crown Publishers, Inc. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp recipes for Bacalao a lo Comunista on page 218 and Kokotchas de Bacalao Verde on page 247 from the book El Bacalao: The Recipes of PYSBE, reprinted by permission of ediciones ttarttalo s.l, Donostia, Spain recipe for Salted Cod Croquettes on page 264 reprinted from the book Talismano Della Felicita, by Ada Boni. Copyright 䉷 1938 by New Directions Publishing Corp. excerpt on page 177 from ‘‘The Cod Head,’’ by William Carlos Williams, from Collected Poems: 1909–1939, Volume I. Endpaper map, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum by Abraham Ortelius, showing the North Atlantic, courtesy of the Royal Library, Copenhagen codfish engraving used as ornament throughout from the author’s collection ‘‘Codfish jig’’ on page 45 and ‘‘Gilded cod from Pickman house stairway’’ on page 90 from Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Mass. PN6071.C66K87 1997 333.95⬘6633-dc21 97-12165 CIP The author has made every effort to locate and contact all the holders of copyright to material reproduced in this book. Cod: a biography of the fish that changed the world/Mark Kurlansky. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Kurlansky, Mark. First published in the United States of America in 1997 by Walker Publishing Company, Inc. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the Publisher. A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World MARK KURLANSKYĬopyright 䉷 1997 by Mark Kurlansky All rights reserved.

Cod fish that changed the world