Rigby's Encyclopaedia of the Herring - a work in progress with no end in sight, but maybe as much as anyone needs to know (eventually)..
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4/ Herring size is determined by temperature/salinity at point of spawning/early juvenile period - colder water/higher salinity = bigger herrings; warmer/lower = smaller. Southern North Sea herring size is complicated by there being mixed populations…
3/ The notion of herrings swimming past Northumberland, achieving optimum kipper size at that point, was knocked on the head by Marcus Eliezer Bloch in 1789 along with the whole concept of a grand migration. We’re talking different populations… (contd.)
2/ The kipper is a product of the railway age (Newcastle, c 1843) which not only enabled the distribution of mild cures, but allowed year-round smokehouse operations - local seasons around the UK last a month, two at most. It’s important to understand…(contd.)
Re Survival of the Kippers @ObserverUK @sarahduce I had a Craster for breakfast this morning. Beautiful - and the speed at which proper smokehouse (as opposed to oven-smoked) kippers are disappearing should be a concern for @HeritageFundUK, but… 1/ (contd)
Eat more herrings: good for the brain, they improve the quality of one’s ideas… talking of which, here’s an extraordinarily nice review by @MatthewLyons in the excellent @EngelsbergIdeas. Hurrah!
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Lightly smoked, which was always the way with Norwegian (herring) sardines, Sild No 1 salad for lunch today! Hurrah! (Thanks to my good friend Liz Beech, who picked these up somewhere in the Lake District).
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My good friend Ian Ground sends me a photo of this menu from Denmark. Bliss it was in that restaurant to be alive!
And why stop at two?
With new season Scottish herring now appearing in our fishmongers and supermarkets, make this delicious fish one of your 'two a week'
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#HealthyEating #HeartHealthy #Omega3Rich #EatMoreFish #My2aWeek
Nashe didn’t rate the Harveys (sorry, literary joke) but it was great to meet up with @nashe_thomas’s Andrew Hadfield at the Lewes Arms where it’s always good, discussing the beauty of Nashes Lenten Stuffe & the Red Herring Joke, which runs through it. Hurrah!
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I can neither confirm nor deny that Robert Jenrick has asked to defect to the Count Binface Party. I can confirm that the answer's no.
Ryszard Kaja’s Wódka - I’m not really a vodka drinker, but I could be persuaded by posters like this…
I’ve just finished a full translation of Neucrantz’s On Herrings (1654) - all but one or two of the 115 writers and 174 texts he references traced and footnoted… I’m going to get it looked over by someone who can actually read Renaissance Latin, but, nevertheless, hurrah!
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