rigbysherrings.bsky.social @rigbysherrings.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Lightly smoked, which was always the way with Norwegian (herring) sardines, Sild No 1 salad for lunch today! Hurrah! (Thanks to my good friend Liz Beech, who picked these up somewhere in the Lake District). 000
rigbysherrings.bsky.social @rigbysherrings.bsky.social · 04/08/2026errings in at Lindsay’s in Newcastle’s Grainger Market today. Hurrah! 021
rigbysherrings.bsky.social @rigbysherrings.bsky.social · 29/07/2026My good friend Ian Ground sends me a photo of this menu from Denmark. Bliss it was in that restaurant to be alive! 000
rigbysherrings.bsky.social @rigbysherrings.bsky.social · 27/07/2026David Byrne, Cardiff Castle. There’s nobody like him for a gig. 030
rigbysherrings.bsky.social @rigbysherrings.bsky.social · 12/07/2026There was, of course, a hidden reference to herrings in the team encouragement of Norway’s fans… 000
rigbysherrings.bsky.social @rigbysherrings.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Nashe didn’t rate the Harveys (sorry, literary joke) but it was great to meet up with the Thomas Nashe Project’s Andrew Hadfield at the Lewes Arms where it’s always beautiful, discussing the beauty of Nashes Lenten Stuffe and the Red Herring Joke which runs through it. Hurrah! 000
rigbysherrings.bsky.social @rigbysherrings.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Ryszard Kaja’s Wódka - I’m not really a vodka drinker, but I could be persuaded by posters like this… 011
rigbysherrings.bsky.social @rigbysherrings.bsky.social · 18/06/2026I’ve just finished a full translation of Neucrantz’s On Herrings (1654) - all but one or two of the 115 writers and 174 texts he references traced and footnoted… I’m going to get it looked over by someone who can actually read Renaissance Latin, but, nevertheless, hurrah! 000
rigbysherrings.bsky.social @rigbysherrings.bsky.social · 18/06/202645% off the encyclopaedia of your dreams! 011
rigbysherrings.bsky.social @rigbysherrings.bsky.social · 09/06/2026What to do when a friend brings you a dinky little dried herring from Japan and you happen to have a dinky little fresh herring in the freezer… Has to be a sushi-rollmop roll-off! 000
rigbysherrings.bsky.social @rigbysherrings.bsky.social · 04/06/2026A friend brings me nishin - dried herring - from Japan. Hurrah! 000
rigbysherrings.bsky.social @rigbysherrings.bsky.social · 24/05/2026Good to meet up with the great Mike Smylie once more. Ullapool’s Lugger Fest is a tip top event - and I got to eat one of Mike’s truly excellent kippers. As the cap says Make Herrings Great Again! 000
rigbysherrings.bsky.social @rigbysherrings.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Gosh, but I’m looking forward to being at Ullapool’s Lugger Fest this weekend! So many beautiful boats, so many lovers of the herring - including the great Mike Smilie (whose mobile smokehouse kippers I might even get to try this time…). www.luggerfest.wordpress.com 000
rigbysherrings.bsky.social @rigbysherrings.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Looking forward to Monday’s event at Taigh Chearsabhagh in Lochmaddy - I think it’s the first time I’ve been introduced in Gaelic! Hurrah! Or maybe, Cabhaig! 000
rigbysherrings.bsky.social @rigbysherrings.bsky.social · 09/05/2026Herrings declare independence. ‘Yes, we talk through our arses,’ they farted, ‘but we’d just like to register our disappointment.’ 000
rigbysherrings.bsky.social @rigbysherrings.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Rigby’s Encyclopaedia of the Herring: The Highlands & Islands Tour! All right, a couple of gigs, but what gigs! I could be rubbish and you’d still be glad you came! Sat 23 May, 2.45pm, Lugger Fest, Ullapool; Mon 25 May, 7pm, Taigh Chearsabhagh, Lochmaddy, North Uist. Hurrah! 010
rigbysherrings.bsky.social @rigbysherrings.bsky.social · 04/05/2026All I want is a proper cup coffee, made in a proper copper coffee pot… Every time I hear (or sing) the song, I think of this coffee pot. And as a kid, before I’d heard the song, every time I thought about Aladdin… 000
rigbysherrings.bsky.social @rigbysherrings.bsky.social · 23/04/2026A tasty-looking rye & spelt loaf if I say so myself… if only I’d pickled some herrings when I had the chance… 000
rigbysherrings.bsky.social @rigbysherrings.bsky.social · 19/04/2026Newcastle’s great gift to humanity - the prospects of any day are improved with a kipper for breakfast! Hurrah! 000
rigbysherrings.bsky.social @rigbysherrings.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Gosh! Rigby’s Encyclopaedia of the Herring is up for the Nach Waxman Prize for Food & Drink Scholarship. Honoured to be part of such a great shortlist! www.kitchenartsandletters.com/pages/the-na...kitchenartsandletters.comThe Nach Waxman Prize Shortlist for Books Published in 2025We're delighted to reveal the shortlist for the third annual Nach Waxman Prize for Food and Beverage Scholarship. This is one of the few prizes for food writing which carries a cash award: $5,500. For... 000
rigbysherrings.bsky.social @rigbysherrings.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Hay erizos! There are sea urchins! In Asturias they’d be going crazy. Fresh from the North Sea - get yourselves down to Lindsay’s in Newcastle’s Grainger Market. At a quid a pop you can afford to go crazy. 000
rigbysherrings.bsky.social @rigbysherrings.bsky.social · 04/04/2026When a grandchild bakes you cinnamon buns, it’s possible to order that Bath chair with confidence. 000
rigbysherrings.bsky.social @rigbysherrings.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Eat more herrings at Easter and beyond - a little oiece wot I have wrote… www.hurstpublishers.com/eat-more-her...hurstpublishers.comEat More Herring at Easter | Hurst PublishersWaitrose has suspended sales of overfished mackerel, pointing its customers to other species, including (why should it earn an exclamation mark?) herring! 000
rigbysherrings.bsky.social @rigbysherrings.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Look what I’ve got! The out-today paperback of This Allotment, edited by Sarah Rigby and published by the excellent Elliott & Thompson. It includes a couple of the Newcastle Allotments interviews I did, working with my good friend the photographer Peter Fryer back in the days when I had more hair… 020
rigbysherrings.bsky.social @rigbysherrings.bsky.social · 01/04/2026TOXIC HERRING SHOCK! Plankton-eating Spring herring in the North Sea reveal dangerously high accumulations of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) reports respected French fishery science journal, Poison d’Avril. 100
rigbysherrings.bsky.social @rigbysherrings.bsky.social · 29/03/2026Great stuff from @rachkelly_designs and Newcastle College’s @paperjam_ncl - herrings with legs! There are Sumerian and C15th/16th English precedents, trust me… and the hope inherent in a new generation of herringists… 000
rigbysherrings.bsky.social @rigbysherrings.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Herring in oatmeal fried with bacon, served with cabbage, caraway & lentils and a mustard sauce, hurrah! 010
rigbysherrings.bsky.social @rigbysherrings.bsky.social · 21/03/2026Fresh herrings at Lindsay’s on Thursday, great Opera North production of Peter Grimes at the Theatre Royal last night… Could’ve built a Newcastle Herring Festival round that… KipperFest: a Celebration of the Toon’s Greatest Gift to Mankind! How about it Newcastle City Council? 000
rigbysherrings.bsky.social @rigbysherrings.bsky.social · 19/03/2026Hurrah! Get yourselves down to Lindsay’s in Newcastle’s Grainger Market while stocks last! 000
rigbysherrings.bsky.social @rigbysherrings.bsky.social · 19/03/2026The Herring Era Museum in Siglufjördur is opening a Herring Café… selling herring dishes! Hurrah! May it be an inspiration to others! Worth an Icelandic pilgrimage! 000
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rigbysherrings.bsky.social @rigbysherrings.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Good to hear @Charles Clover of @Bluemarinef.bsky.social on the radio this morning advocating the eating of more herring. He’s right, you know. I’ve said the same myself once or twice (plenty of recipes in Rigby’s Encyclopaedia of the Herring, @hurstpublishers.bsky.social). 000
rigbysherrings.bsky.social @rigbysherrings.bsky.social · 21/02/2026I’ve been worrying about the line of succession. Was Arbella Stuart the Lady Turbot in Nashes Lenten Stuffe, wooed by that cropshin smoked herring Henry Brooke and his mate Raleigh as a more flexibly religious candidate than James VI of Scotland? Andrew? Malmsey Wine… 111
rigbysherrings.bsky.social @rigbysherrings.bsky.social · 18/02/2026LENTEN STUFF Then Jake-a-lent comes justlynge in, With the hedpeece of a herynge, And saythe, "repent yowe of yower syn, For shame, syrs, leve yower swerynge." And to Palme Sonday doethe he ryde, With sprots and herryngs by hys syde, And makes an end of Lenton tyde. (William Elderton, C16th) 000
rigbysherrings.bsky.social @rigbysherrings.bsky.social · 17/02/2026Pancake Day: 44 more days before you can have your hot cross buns. Whatever shall we eat? Rigby’s Encyclopaedia of the Herring (@HurstPublishers) has some suggestions… 010
rigbysherrings.bsky.social @rigbysherrings.bsky.social · 15/02/2026Made some rye bread - the Felicity Cloake 5-day job. Gosh! A bread that brings something to the table: an equal partner to the salt herring and the chrane! 010
rigbysherrings.bsky.social @rigbysherrings.bsky.social · 12/02/2026597 years ago today! Battle of the Herrings! What celebrations in 2029! French & Scots defeated by Fastolf (Falstaff) defending a wagon train of them. The French named it to mock English victory but we owned the joke. See Rigby’s Encyclopaedia for more! 000
Reposted by @rigbysherrings.bsky.socialThe Well-read Naturalist @wellreadnaturalist.bsky.social · 04/02/2026A copy of "Rigby's Encyclopaedia of the Herring" (@hurstpublishers.bsky.social) arrived today. I'm keen to learn from it how to cut down the mightiest tree in the forest with one. 😉 In all serious, it looks to be filled with interesting information and I'm very much looking forward to reading it. 112
rigbysherrings.bsky.social @rigbysherrings.bsky.social · 21/12/2025Haddock pickle (it begins with an H…). The recipe says cod, but I’ve also made it with herring and ling, coley, hake or gurnard would be fine too. From Harvey Day’s Complete Book of Curries, it’s an absolute cracker! Boxing Day sorted. How long does it keep? Never had to find out. 000
rigbysherrings.bsky.social @rigbysherrings.bsky.social · 16/12/2025And the supermarket shelves shall be full of gwamegi! Lovers of semi-dried herring salute our Labour government for its historic trade deal with South Korea! 020
rigbysherrings.bsky.social @rigbysherrings.bsky.social · 10/12/2025They’re not actually kippers. Or even herrings. But let each competitor take their cardboard bat, each creating the airflow to waft their fish forward in a space big enough for a race… Flipping the Kipper! The game which could yet save Christmas! 000
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rigbysherrings.bsky.social @rigbysherrings.bsky.social · 04/12/2025The Spectator: ‘a prodigious achievement, by turns erudite and great fun.’ I particularly like David Profumo’s ‘encyclupeidae’ and his ‘farctate with glistening details’ takes me happily back over 60yrs to excellent maths teacher Albert Knight’s school report comment, ‘loquacious, but inefficient.’ 000
rigbysherrings.bsky.social @rigbysherrings.bsky.social · 28/11/2025Today (Black Friday) to Mon 9th Dec all Hurst books from their website: 1/2 price + postage! Rigby’s Encyclopaedia of the Herring will only cost you £16.49. And there are lots more great titles too! www.hurstpublishers.com/book/rigbys-...hurstpublishers.comRigby's Encyclopaedia of the Herring | Hurst PublishersAn all-in-one deep dive into the Atlantic herring and its far-reaching dominions. 000
rigbysherrings.bsky.social @rigbysherrings.bsky.social · 18/11/2025Great review of Rigby’s Encyclopaedia of the Herring in The Skipper! 000
rigbysherrings.bsky.social @rigbysherrings.bsky.social · 15/11/2025Readings from Rigby’s Encyclopaedia of the Herrings (@hurstpublishers.bsky.social) HERE, Clovelly Herring Festival, tomorrow afternoon (no rain forecast. 000
rigbysherrings.bsky.social @rigbysherrings.bsky.social · 13/11/2025Box o’ books in the back o’ the car; phone now a card reader… Rigby’s Encyclopaedia of the Herring @hurstpublishers.bsky.social perfect present for anyone who likes herring; necessary one for those who don’t! Off to Clovelly Herring Festival in the morning. Stop me and buy one! 021
rigbysherrings.bsky.social @rigbysherrings.bsky.social · 12/11/2025Rigby’s Encyclopaedia of the Herring on Tour! In striking distance of North Devon? This Sunday at 1.30 I’ll be reading stuff at Clovelly Herring Festival (picarooner territory - see Herring Boats). Also looking forward to trying a Mike Smylie Kipper. Thanks Jess @hurstpublishers.bsky.social. 000
rigbysherrings.bsky.social @rigbysherrings.bsky.social · 03/11/2025@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social has just put up a podcast interview by the excellent Miranda Melcher on Rigby’s Encyclopaedia of the Herring (@HurstPublishers all good bookshops etc). Can a man talk for an hour just about herring? Well, basically… yes. newbooksnetwork.com/rigbys-encyc...newbooksnetwork.comGraeme Rigby, "Rigby’s Encyclopaedia of the Herring" (Hurst Publishers, 2025) - New Books Network 001
