The Salt Roads
eBook - ePub

The Salt Roads

How Fish Made a Culture

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Salt Roads

How Fish Made a Culture

About this book

This is the extraordinary story of how salt fish from Shetland became one of the staple foods of Europe, powered an economic boom and inspired artists, writers and musicians.It ranges from the wild waters of the North Atlantic, the ice-filled fjords of Greenland and the remote islands of Faroe to the dining tables of London's middle classes, the bacalao restaurants of Spain and the Jewish shtetls of Eastern Europe.As well as following the historical thread and exploring how very different cultures were drawn together by the salt fish trade, John Goodlad meets those whose lives revolve around the industry in the twenty-first century and addresses today's pressing themes of sustainability, climate change and food choices.

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Information

Publisher
Birlinn
Year
2022
Print ISBN
9781780277912
eBook ISBN
9781788855372

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Map
  7. Prologue – Pitch Dark
  8. 1 The Dutch and the Basques
  9. 2 The Great Cod Race
  10. 3 Philadelphia
  11. 4 The Hungry Forties
  12. 5 Disko Bay
  13. 6 The Poet
  14. 7 Brains in Their Fingers
  15. 8 Heglies Bank
  16. 9 Beach Boys
  17. 10 The Texan Eco Warriors
  18. 11 The Smugglers
  19. 12 ‘A Sight Most Interesting and Curious’
  20. 13 Vaila Mae
  21. 14 The Old Grey Widow Maker
  22. 15 ‘Haal in da Drogue’
  23. 16 ‘I loved her as much as my own wife’
  24. 17 A Society Transformed
  25. 18 Remnants of Norn
  26. 19 The Big Bang
  27. 20 The Herring Capital of Europe
  28. 21 What Is History?
  29. 22 Valkyrie
  30. 23 An Epic of Steam and Steel
  31. 24 A Night at the Drift Net
  32. Postscript – What Now for Fishing?
  33. Further Reading
  34. Index
  35. Plates Section