Salted Cod Quotes

“Cod meat has virtually no fat (.3 percent) and is more than 18 percent protein, which is unusually high even for fish. And when cod is dried, the more than 80 percent of its flesh that is water having evaporated, it becomes concentrated protein - almost 80 percent protein.”
― Mark Kurlansky, Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World

“Cod became almost a religious icon - a mythological crusader for Christian observance.”
― Mark Kurlansky, Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World

“The word cod is of unknown origin. For something that began as food for good Catholics on the days they were to abstain from sex, it is not clear why, in several languages, the words for salt cod have come to have sexual connotations. In the English-speaking West Indies, saltfish is the common name for salt cod. In slang, saltfish means "a woman's genitals", and while Caribbeans do love their salt cod, it is this other meaning that is responsible for the frequent appearance of the word saltfish in Caribbean songs such as the Mighty Sparrow's "Saltfish".”
― Mark Kurlansky, Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World