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Clupeophilia: Oliver Sacks Writes About Russ & Daughters Herring in The New Yorker

July 13th, 2009 · 3:16 pm

Thanks to Oliver Sacks, Russ & Daughters herring is the “Talk of the Town!”  Sacks writes about the New Catch Holland Herring, and other clupeal delights, in this week’s New Yorker.
- Jen Snow

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Category: Events · Featured Product · Herring · Press · The Well Read Herring · customers
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Special Delivery: Quilting with R&D

June 23rd, 2009 · 11:33 am

One of the highlights of my job is to see how Russ & Daughters pops up into peoples lives.  This is one of my favorites, a letter and photos I received today. —Josh Russ Tupper

Katie Stewart Sigler wrote:

“So my mom is big into quilting.  She makes baby quilts for every baby [...]

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Category: Photo · The Generationals · customers
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After Almost 100 Years, It Was Time for a Twitter

June 10th, 2009 · 11:30 am

After almost 100 years, it was time for a Twitter. Follow us at http://twitter.com/LoxPopuli
Twitter has been great so far. We love hearing from Russ & Daughters fans and Lox Populi readers all over the world.  Note the exchange we had recently with swell website Foursquare (a site that encourages you to explore your city and [...]

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Category: Friends & Neighbors · In Line · In the Store · R&D To Do List · The Small Screen · Visitors · While You Wait · customers
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The Benches are Back!

May 5th, 2009 · 2:08 pm

The benches are back!  After a debacle with a small - yet strong - dog, outdoor seating has returned to the Russ & Daughters’ storefront on East Houston Street, just in time for Spring!  Join us for bagels on the benches.
Catch up on the story, previously on Lox Populi: And the Dog Ran Away with [...]

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Category: In the Store · Photo · What I Ate Today · While You Wait · customers · storefront
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Pack to Travel: Baby in a Bag

April 22nd, 2009 · 11:01 am

Customer Dan Ryan sent us this adorable photo.  In it, he carries Vivienne Rose Ryan, who is 14 months old, in a shopping bag from Russ & Daughters.  “She loves your whitefish!” Dan says.
And we love seeing your photos!  Send us your photos, videos, stories, recipes, anecdotes, etc. -  info(at)russanddaughters.com.  We’d love to feature you [...]

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Category: Feedback · Pack to Travel · Photo · Take Home · customers
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Time Out’s 2009 Eat Out Awards: April Bloomfield Poses at Russ & Daughters

April 14th, 2009 · 1:49 pm

Congratulations to April Bloomfield! She was just named “Best New Hand at Seafood” in Time Out New York’s 2009 Eat Out Awards.  For the magazine’s photo shoot, Bloomfield chose “working behind the counter at Russ & Daughters” as her scene.
The magazine set up the photo shoot for their article about this year’s award winners with [...]

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Category: In the Store · Photo · Visitors · customers
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Piper Perabo: Herring, a Reason For Being Pretty

April 2nd, 2009 · 11:50 am

Neil LaBute’s Reason to Be Pretty opens on Broadway tonight.  Taylor Antrim interviewed Piper Perabo, for Men’s Vogue, about her long-awaited Broadway debut:
“With breezy sophistication, she offers critical assessments of the latest New York museum shows, the pace of gentrification on the Lower East Side, and where to get the best pickled herring in the [...]

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Category: Around Town · Events · Out and About · Press · R&D To Do List · customers
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Smoked Whitefish: A Love Story? A Short Film?

April 2nd, 2009 · 10:23 am

We are lucky to hear wonderful stories and to see great photos from customers all the time.  Some stop by the store to share, some e-mail, or call. Some customers post things on Flickr or Twitter or Vimeo.  But I recently opened my e-mail and was totally surprised by a delightful — and delightfully odd [...]

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Category: Feedback · Matchmaker · The Big Screen · The Small Screen · Video · customers
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Marco Pierre White’s Favorite Lunch Spot: The Russ & Daughters Counter

March 11th, 2009 · 3:50 pm

There was lots of buzz in the papers and on the blogs today about Chef Marco Pierre White. The Chopping Block, his new reality show, premieres tonight on NBC.  About halfway into Carla Spartos’s article, “Chop Chef,” in the New York Post is this gem: “No wonder White counts Russ & Daughters as his favorite [...]

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Category: In Line · In the Store · The Small Screen · customers
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Our Friends and Neighbors: R & D To Do List for Tonight

March 11th, 2009 · 7:00 am

Friends and neighbors of Russ & Daughters are up to great things. Here’s a Russ & Daughters To Do List for tonight.

The shiny new 92Y Tribeca presents Comedy 2.0: Video Series on the Web: a panel and clip show moderated by Gabe Delahaye and featuring the creators content for The Burg, Barely Political, College Humor, [...]

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Category: Around Town · Friends & Neighbors · R&D To Do List · customers
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