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 chili pepper. Germans and the English enjoy their taste best when accompanied by pickle's bite and brine.The herring has done much to shape both human taste and history. Men cooperated and came into conflict over its shoals, setting out on boats to catch them and straying to bring full nets to shore. Women gutted and salted the catch during the annual harvest and knitted the garments fishermen wore to protect them from the ocean's chill.Following a jou…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4729-1216-9
- EAN: 9781472912169
- Produktnummer: 23991608
- Verlag: Bloomsbury
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 272 S.
- Masse: H22.5 cm x B14.4 cm x D3.0 cm 434 g
- Gewicht: 434
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Donald S. Murray
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