Herring Tales
How the silver darlings shaped human taste and history
Scots like to smoke or salt them. The Dutch love them raw. Swedes look on with relish as they open bulging, foul-smelling cans to find them curdling within. Jamaicans prefer them with a dash of chilli pepper. Germans and the English enjoy their taste best when accompanied by pickle's bite and brine.Throughout the long centuries men have fished around their coastlines and beyond, the herring has done much to shape both human taste and history. Men have co-operated and come into conflict over its shoals, setting out in boats to catch them, straying, too, from their home ports to bring full nets to shore. Women have also often been at the centre…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4729-1218-3
- EAN: 9781472912183
- Produktnummer: 18835589
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 7'276 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
- Abbildungen: Greyscale maps, colour plate section
Über den Autor
Donald S. Murray comes from Ness at the northern tip of the Isle of Lewis and now lives in Shetland. Donald is an award-winning writer, playwright and poet. His last Bloomsbury book, Herring Tales, was one of The Guardian's nature books of the year in 2015, as was his previous book,The Guga Stone, in 2013.
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