[Sca-cooks] Cod Imports to London

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Mark Kurlansky's book on Cod is actually quite fascinating:
http://www.amazon.com/Cod-Biography-Fish-Changed-World/dp/0140275010/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1401913981&sr=1-2

Margaret


On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 11:49 AM, Sam Wallace <guillaumedep at gmail.com> wrote:

> I thought I would share an article I found concerning the increasing
> prevalence of cod imports going to London. The methodology was to date
> vertebrae and skulls and compare the frequency of each with the assumption
> that head bones were removed for preservation during long-range transport.
> They concluded that there was a "sudden switch 'from heads to tails' during
> the early 13th century..., a temporary drop in imports in the late 14th
> century..., plus a further surge in imports from around AD1500...." The
> paper says they confirmed this with biochemical signatures.
>
> Cod bones reveal 13th Century origin of global fish trade
>
> http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0514/280514-cod-bones-fish-trade-london
>
> I will have to buy some salt cod and use it in something, now.
>
> Guillaume
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