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Travels through the herriverse
Explore the world of strange wonders that’s revealed at the interfaces between mankind and the herring. Six, monthly episodes take you where few other podcasts venture.
Rigby’s Encyclopaedia of the Herring
aka The Herripedia
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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)
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
JANSSON’S TEMPTATION
A description of this Swedish dish; consideration of when he was actually tempted and how this might impact on the authenticity of some recipes
JEWISH RECIPES
A selection of fine recipes reflecting the love of herring in the Jewish diaspora (not including ones treated individually in this encyclopaedia)
KIPPER
Oh! The kipper! One of the greatest inventions of the Railway Age! Its Northumbrian origins, preparation, variety and history explored