Fish on Friday: Feasting, Fasting, and the Discovery of the New World
Brian M. Fagan, . . Basic, $26 (338pp) ISBN 978-0-465-02284-7
It was fish, not spices, that led to the discovery of North America," speculates anthropologist Fagan. From 1495 to 1525, he tells us, the monks at Westminster Abbey consumed almost 11,000 kilograms of fish per year. The sheer enormity of this piscine cuisine offers a snapshot of the exalted place fish held in the life of religious communities. Fagan (
Reviewed on: 11/21/2005
Genre: Nonfiction
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