Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World - Softcover

294pp , in English , with many recipes on how to cook cod worldwide .. ABOUT THE AUTHOR :: Mark Kurlansky born in Hartford , Connecticut. After receiving a BA in Theatre from Butler University in 1970 , and refuse to serve in the army , Kurlansky worked in New York as a playwright , which has several off-off Broadway productions, and as a playwright in residence at Brooklyn College. He won the 1972 award for Earplay radio play better year. He worked many jobs, including as a commercial fisherman , a longshoreman , a paralegal , a cook and a pastry chef . In mid- 1970 , dissatisfied with the theater director in New York was taking , he turned to journalism, an early interest - who was editor of his high school newspaper . From 1976-1991 he worked as a foreign correspondent for The International Herald Tribune , The Chicago Tribune , The Miami Herald , The Philadelphia Inquirer. Headquartered in Paris and Mexico later reported on Europe, West Africa , Southeast Asia , Central America, Latin America and the Caribbean. His articles have appeared in a variety of newspapers and magazines , including The International Herald Tribune , The Philadelphia Inquirer , The Miami Herald , The Chicago Tribune , Los Angeles Times , Time Magazine, Partisan Review, Harper , New York Times Magazine on Sunday, Audubon magazine , Food & Wine, Gourmet, Bon Apetit and Parade. In addition to numerous guest lectures at Columbia University School of Journalism at the University of Yale , Colby College, Grinnell College, the University of Dayton and several other schools , he has taught a class in creative writing two weeks in Assisi , Italy, non -fiction intensive workshop in Devon , England Foundation for the Arvon week , and has been invited lectures worldwide in history , writing , environment , and other issues. In the spring of 2007 was the Harman writer in residence at Baruch College teaching a fourteen -week honors course entitled " Journalism and literary imagination " . His books hav