Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World (Mark Kurlansky) Jane Nickerson Cooking became the basis for

Cooking became the basis for pair bonding and marriage

and the secret to inventing memorable cocktails

Nothing makes Chang happier than baking and sharing treats with others

and buns to custards

Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World (Mark Kurlansky) Jane Nickerson Cooking became the basis forCod, Mark Kurlanskys 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. Cod, it turns out, is the reason Europeans 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?