Do you believe in cod?
May 11, 2022
3 minutes
Tom Parker Bowles
IT was the fish that built countries, empires and fortunes alike, a species once so abundant that you could cross Newfoundland’s Conception Bay by tramping across their heads. Or so they said. Anyway, without cod, the US probably would not exist, as both colonists and pilgrims financed their early days across the pond by flogging the dried stuff back to the Old World.
Despite this decidedly epic legacy, the cod is hardly the
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