This won the prestigious Glenfiddich award in 1999 for Best Food Book, and became a best-seller after winning rave reviews. Even so I resisted it, not imagining a book devoted entirely to cod would be that enthralling. But I was wrong. Not least among its revelations is that there actually was someone called Birdseye who developed a way of freezing fish and invented what the Americans call fish-sticks better known to us as fish-fingers.
(Jenny Baker - bwl 7 February 2001 ) |
