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Completed	25 May 2008
Title	Cod
Author	Mark Kurlansky
Published	1997
Quote	"Fish sticks became an enormous success. Fish fillets were frozen into blocks, which were then run through a saw and sliced into slabs, which were then cut into sticks. A Gordon's advertisement of the 1950s called fish sticks 'the latest, greatest achievement of the seafood industry of today....' Freezing also changed the relationship of seafood companies to fishing ports. Frozen fish could be bought anywhere---wherever the fish was cheapest and most plentiful...Between 1960 and 1970, the total U.S. production of fish fillets tripled."
Review	What an interesting book. I love slice-of-history books like this. And it reminds me of all those fish sticks I ate as a kid growing up in the 1970s. Fish sticks baked on a cookie sheet in the oven, served with Mom's homeade tartar sauce. I'll never look at cod the same again. Who knew there was so much history behind this simple fish?

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