cod
Route
PendingThe routes are written. They are not yet mapped.
This entry's cultural layer already names where it came from and how it moved. What it does not yet carry is that movement as structure: ordered waypoints with real coordinates, and a mechanism on each leg. Until it does, the layer stays an empty slot rather than a drawn line, because a map built from prose would be a guess with a projection under it.
1 of 409 entries carries a mapped route · nutmeg is the prototype
- Waypoints
Ordered places, each with its kind
- Coordinates
Real positions, with the gazetteer they came from
- Segments
From, to, and the mechanism that moved it
- Confidence
Documented, attributed or contested
- Summary
What the route argues, in a sentence
Rite
Cod fed Catholic Europe's calendar. Church rules put lean days across roughly a third of the year, when meat was forbidden and fish was not, and salt cod kept without refrigeration and travelled anywhere, so a religious restriction created a transatlantic industry. Basque fishermen were working the Newfoundland banks before the voyages that officially found them, and kept the location quiet. A fasting rule redrew the map of the North Atlantic.
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World (Mark Kurlansky, 1997)
Connections
8 bonds · 7 sourcedAckee and saltfish, the national dish of Jamaica.
Read in the Rousseaus' Caribbean Potluck, 2014, page 15, the ackee is Jamaica's national fruit and ackee and salt fish one of its best-known dishes; page 16, salt fish is salt cod. Also read in Willinsky's Jerk: Barbecue from Jamaica, 1990, page 78, codfish and ackee, which she calls almost Jamaica's national dish.
Set in bold capitals in The Flavor Bible: very highly recommended by a large number of the chefs it surveyed.
Read from the entry for cod in the 2008 edition, where parsley, flat-leaf is set in bold capitals.
Brandade, bacalhau, and most of salt cod cooking.
Read from the entry for cod in the 2008 edition, where mashed potatoes, and artichoke puree is set in bold.
Set in bold in The Flavor Bible: recommended by a number of the chefs it surveyed.
Read from the entry for cod in the 2008 edition, where lemon, juice is set in bold.
Set in bold in The Flavor Bible: recommended by a number of the chefs it surveyed.
Read from the entry for cod in the 2008 edition.
Steamed fish with black bean.
Cod hotpot, simmered over a square of kelp.
Two things cross the same contact in opposite directions. The dried kelp pulls water out of the fish by osmosis, which firms the flesh and turns it translucent, while the kombu's free glutamate travels the other way into it. The fish ends up drier and more savoury than it began, without heat, salt or a pot. It is the dashi relationship run as a cure rather than a broth.
Glutamate and inosinate content of foods: seafood and cheese (Umami Information Center, accessed 2026-09-13) · Japanese Cooking: A Simple Art (Shizuo Tsuji, 1980)
Relocated in Japanese Cooking: A Simple Art: cod and cabbage casserole, pages 432 to 433. The book's kombujime, page 353, is sillago, not cod.
Bonds are drawn from culinary literature and origin-tradition references, tiered by source. Origin means a reference from the place. Witness means the pairing is the place's own and the reference documenting it was written from outside.
The score is cultural weight: how central a pairing is in the tradition that documents it. It is not a prediction of how two materials behave in a formulation and not a measure of chemical affinity. The scale is ordinal, because centrality is a judgement rather than a measurement: 1.0 where the pair is the dish, 0.9 a fixed named form, 0.8 a canonical dish, 0.7 recurrent across many dishes, 0.6 common, 0.5 attested, 0.4 marginal or compound-led.
Each score is set against a named dish and carries that dish in its note. Where a score has not been examined it says so, because an inherited figure and a researched one should not look alike.
The dish is named by a reader who knows the cuisine and cites a source appropriate to it. It has not yet been confirmed inside that source page by page, so a note records what supports a score rather than what has been checked in the book.
Studio Culinar-E, "cod", Pantry Archive, Studio Monk-E, 2026. https://studioculinar-e.com/archive/cod
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Bonds are tiered by source, origin-tradition references first.