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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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RACIAL THEORY
The development of thinking around herring population difference and some uncomfortable parallels with racial theories of mankind
RECIPES FROM THE HERRING BOARD
A curious case of a three version booklet by two different cooks, promoting the herring with some very 1930s recipes
RED HERRING
Not just a euphemism for a false trail, but a kind of smoked herring that has probably served as a euphemism for a false trail since at least the C16th
RED HERRING JOKE, THE
The story of the red herring gag shared between Shakespeare, Jonson & Nashe in at least six great literary works
RING NET: WILL MACLEAN
An interview with Scottish artist Will Maclean on his documentary exhibition, The Ring Net, which he developed between 1973 and 1978
RING NETTING
On the rise and demise of ring net fishing for herring, which originated in the waters of Loch Fyne and played a role in the sad development of overfishing
ROLLMOPS & BISMARCKS
On the popular German vinegar-based cures, together with an origin story for one of them and a basic recipe for the marinade
SALT
An 8,000 year history of salt and salt pickling, paying particular attention to the preservation of herrings by the German Hanse, the Dutch and the British.
SARDINES
The sardine in cans, on the slab and in popular culture; the limits of self-identification for herrings and non-European pilchards
SCANIA FISHERY
The story of the first great empire-shaping herring fishery together with historical and scientific speculations on its rise and its fall
SCHMALTZ HERRING
An attempted exploration of exactly what this is, despite disagreement among its advocates and loose definition amongst suppliers
SHOALS
On an evolutionary strategy aimed at dealing with predation, which didn't imagine the purse seine net or the unregulated pursuit of profit