SMOKEHOUSE TALES: GERRY SKEWS
A new Lowestoft smoker, an old smokehouse and red herrings among the kippers, bloaters and many other hot and cold smoked products
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
SUFFERING SALTWORKERS OF SHIELDS
C19th/C20th Scottish herring industry dominance linked to the Siege of Newcastle and suffering South Shields saltworkers
SURSTRÖMMING
On the Swedish herring delicacy which defies delicacy, insisting upon schnapps and communal singing in the face of its intimations of mortality
VENTJAGER
How they got the good new herring from somewhere off the coast of Scotland to wealthy Dutch burghers fresh from a hard day of being painted by Rembrandt
WEDGWOOD
In which we lust after that object of desire, the Wedgwood Queen's Ware herring dish (c 1780)
WHITE HERRING
On the nature of white herring, its international markets and its historical underachievement with the Great British public