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.
Rigby’s Encyclopaedia of the Herring
aka The Herripedia
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SMITH, ADAM: WEALTH OF NATIONS
In which we explore the curious errors and omissions in Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations herring thinking
EYVIND SKÁLDASPILLIR
The earliest herring poet and the two earliest herring poems, together with the difficulties of dealing with kings
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WHEN HERRINGS LIVED ON DRY LAND
A curious Estonian folk song telling us both why the herring swims in the sea and why the sea is salty
WHITE HERRING
On the nature of white herring, its international markets and its historical underachievement with the Great British public
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM CARLOS: FISH
The great American modernist, his poem, 'Fish' and his form with herring imagery
WITCHCRAFT
The role of herrings in England's penultimate witch trial and the subsequent part the narrative played in shaping the hysteria in Salem
X, CRUX OR KRUIS BRAND
An entry that possibly should have been filed under C, but which spuriously allows alphabetic completism
YAWL
On the nature of the boat known as a yawl and the difference between the Norwegian and Scarborough versions
ZOOLOGY
Heavily reliant on the zoological description of the Soviet systematist AN Svetovidov, an account of what a herring is
ZULU
A compromise between the Fifie and the Scaffie, a boat with a popular design which didn't adapt well to the introduction of steam
ZUYDERZEE
Home to a once distinct population of inshore herrings lost to the dyke building tendencies of The Netherlands