[Sca-cooks] "Soul food" that others can't stand...

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Mark.S Harris wrote:

>>Oh, and food I do eat? Well, pickled herring was mentioned in another
>>context, and I love it - though I'm not sure if that is because I am
>>Norwegian, because we lived in Denmark where my dad developed a taste for
>>it, or because I live in NYC, where I can get all kinds of herring!
>>
>
> What kinds of herring can you get in NYC?


NOW you've done it!


Let's see... . Salted herring fillets (i.e. requiring processing before eating), ditto smoked herring fillets. Herring pickled with vinegar and, usually, onion. Rollmops, rolled-up herring fillets with onion and sometimes carrot inside, pickled in vinegar. Herring in sour cream with onion. Herring in wine with onions. Herring in tomato sauce, herring in mustard sauce, herring in mushroom vinaigrette (these are usually, but not always, canned). Matjes herring (a seasonal item whose season is extended more or less year-round by storage methods; essentially a very fat fish harvested before spawning, IIRC), usually _heavily_ salted and served in a wine pickle. Hot-smoked herring. Kippers. Schmalts herring, which I believe to be similar to matjes, but one is a Scandinavian and the other, a Jewish version. Chopped herring for spreading on bagels. We get fresh raw herring in the fish markets in early summer from the Atlantic fisheries, and at other times from Pacific ones.


I have not even scraped the bottom of the [no pun intended, originally]
barrel.

Adamantius
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