Talk:Dried and salted cod

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[edit] salt fish

mainly salted cod produced as clipfish with a left cut, Iceland and Faroes, and right cut in the rest of the world and salt filets. Saltfish is produced in Canada, Iceland , Faroes, Norway, Rusia, Germany, Danmark, Portugal and Spain. The most expensive salt fish (best quality)are produced in Iceland and Faroes.

This article Clipfish is a bit strange. It is like talking about wine being the product of one country. Salt fish, Clipfish, Salted cod, Stock fish have a tradition in all of the nordic countrys as in most of the european seafaring nations.

[edit] The name clipfish

The name clipfish comes from then scandinavian klipfisk, which means fish dried on rocks. The scandinavan word for rock is klippe.

[edit] The English name is Salt Cod

The common English name for salted and dried cod is "Salt cod", not clipfish/klipfish. Bacalà, bacalhau, etc. are the Italian, Portuguese, etc. names for salt cod, not the English names. These articles should be unified under the name "Salt cod", which should also include a "cuisine" section mentioning the various dishes made with Salt cod in various countries. Comments? --Macrakis 01:49, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

I agree. I have the book in my hands: Mark Kurlansky (1997). Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World. New York: Walker. ISBN 0-8027-1326-2. I am trying to add info to relevant articles: cod, bacalhau, etc. He has many more pages on salt cod than stockfish, and no index entry for clipfish (though a couple of mentions in the text). How do we go about renaming this article? BrainyBabe 13:48, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the change. However, the situation is a bit confusing, in that much of what now goes under the name of salt cod might not in fact be cod. I've made some changes -- comments are welcome. BrainyBabe 11:14, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your improvements. I believe we should also fold in baccala, bacalhau, etc. --Macrakis 16:04, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

You have a point. Bacalhau contains a long list which I suspect is lifted from another source, and not a huge amount else. Baccala is of trivial length (stub). But I am wondering about this title. Would "salt fish" be more accurate than "salt cod"? Not sure. Sorry I didn't think of this earlier! BrainyBabe 17:38, 1 March 2007 (UTC)