In this respect, the book is more of a biography of cod-human interaction than cod itself. Cod biology and natural history is presented in fairly limited terms and even that with a focus on cod's commercial significance.
The book presents an assortment of information related to cod, the primary topic.
Today, cod is a depleted fishery and rapidly is becoming increasingly scarce.
However, numerous technological improvements and widespread increase in the scale of fishing operations have systematically reduced the various global cod fisheries to commercial insignificance. Cod's prolific reproductive rates were seen for hundreds of years as a guarantee that the species would never be negatively impacted by human activity. As early as 1620, cod fishing was as the center of international conflict as various nations attempted to monopolize rich fishing grounds. Read More >įind On: Indiebound (Hardcover), Powells (Hardcover), Amazon (Hardcover), Barnes & Noble (Hardcover), Indiebound (Paperback), Powells (Paperback), Amazon (Paperback), Barnes & Noble (Paperback), Amazon (Kindle), Barnes & Noble (Nook).Gadus morhua, or cod, has been an important commercial fish for about six hundred years. This biography-perfect for middle-grade readers-tells the life story of Clarence Birdseye, the man who revolutionized the frozen food industry, and is adapted from Mark Kurlansky’s adult work Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curious Man.Īdventurer and inventor Clarence Birdseye had a fascination with food preservation that led him to develop and patent the Birdseye freezing process and start the company that still bears his name today. Today Clarence Birdseye seems on the one hand very old fashioned but on the other curiously modern. The story of an odd man of imagination who changed the world of food. Each edition includes an 8-page black-and-white photo insert. Frozen in Time: Clarence Birdseye's Outrageous Idea About Frozen Foodĭelacorte Books for Young Readers Simultaneously available in a hardcover and trade paperback edition.
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