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Fish on Friday : feasting, fasting, and the discovery of the New World /
"Fish on Friday tells a new story of the discovery of America. In Brian Fagan's view, that discovery is the product of the long sweep of history: the spread of Christianity and the radical cultural changes it brought to Europe, the interaction of economic necessity with a changing climate,...
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New York :
Basic Books,
©2006.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Author's note
- Recipes
- Timeline of major events
- pt. 1.
- The great atonement
- 1.
- The big fish
- 2.
- Mortification of the flesh
- pt. 2.
- The fish industry is born
- 3.
- "By the aid of God's grace"
- 4.
- Salt upon salt : preserving the catch
- 5.
- Gadus Morhua
- 6.
- The Northmen
- 7.
- The ant of the sea
- 8.
- The power of invention
- 9.
- The carp bubble
- 10.
- The sin of gluttony
- 11.
- The boat lost to history
- 12.
- The rise and fall of the Icelandic fishery
- pt. 3.
- Discovery
- 13.
- "Serche & fynde a certain isle"
- 14.
- A new found lande
- pt. 4.
- Harvest and settlement
- 15.
- The migrant fishery
- 16.
- "Great store of cod-fish"
- 17.
- Puritans and Cains
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Recipe references
- Index.