RED HERRING JOKE, THE
The story of the red herring gag shared between Shakespeare, Jonson & Nashe in at least six great literary works
Rigby’s Encyclopaedia of the Herring
aka The Herripedia
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HERRING INDUSTRY BOARD
A child of Ramsay MacDonald’s National Government, the Herring Industry Board was shaped by his Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries the Scottish Unionist Walter Elliot,... Read More
SMOKEHOUSE TALES: WILL BUCKENHAM
One of the last red herring smokers, Will Buckenham in Lowestoft produces these, along with bloaters and kippers in the country's oldest working smokehouse
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GOLDEN HERRING
On the golden coloured, more lightly smoked version of red herring, once sold extensively in the Mediterranean, together with recipes
GRANDMOTHER’S RECIPES
The self-indulgent inclusion of two herring dishes appearing in my Sussex grandmother's hand-written collection of strangely intermingled poems and recipes
GREEN HERRING
A very short entry explaining what green herring is, together with a visual explanation of why the silver darlings may have acquired that name
HARENG SAUR
A French-speaking smoked herring of Normandy and Belgium, le hareng saur can mean red herring, bloater (le bouffi) and kipper (le kipper)
HARENG SAUR MONOLOGUES
The hareng saur of the Siege of Paris inspired poems by Cros, Huysmans and Richepin and, with them, the modern French monologue
HERRING BHURTA
Cross-cultural creation or adaptation of some genuine Indian recipe to the fish available to returning ex-pats? A dish from Harvey Day.
HERRING BUSS (TUNE)
A jig from 1750, The Herring Buss, is found and played for you by the excellent English concertina player Rob Harbron
HERRING INDUSTRY BOARD
A child of Ramsay MacDonald’s National Government, the Herring Industry Board was shaped by his Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries the Scottish Unionist Walter Elliot,... Read More
HERRING LASSES
On the herring lasses and the work they did, following the fishing around the coast of Britain, but particularly from Shetland to Great Yarmouth
HERRING UNDER A FUR COAT
Various recipes explored for this classic Russian dish, together with a photograph of one I made earlier
HERRING’S HEAD
On the traditional song, collected across the British Isles, celebrating the ways the herring underpins everything of social importance
ICELANDIC FISHERY
A brief history of the brief history of The Herring Adventure, in which our hero transforms an economy and emancipates womankind