The details of this amazing dish, prepared by Wylie Dufresne and Jon Bignelli:
Smoked New Catch Holland herring, nasturtium gazpacho, cucumber, hazelnut
Soup base made with nasturtium flowers, breadcrumbs, vegetable stock (white grape juice, shallots, garlic, hazelnut oil, and a little butter).
Herring has been lightly cured, smoked and then frozen using liquid nitrogen.  [...]

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New Catch Holland Herring

All reports indicate that the Russ & Daughters Herring Pairing with Wylie Dufresne and John Zorn at Astor Center was a great success! Photos, anecdotes, and a ShootBooth slideshow coming soon!

Event photographs: Belathée Photography
Photo booth portraits: ShootBooth

- Jen Snow

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RUSS & DAUGHTERS CELEBRATES NEW CATCH HOLLAND HERRING SEASON IN THE SHOP AND AT A HERRING PAIRING EVENT
New York’s premier appetizing shop celebrates the New Catch at the counter and at The Russ & Daughters Herring Pairing at Astor Center - a one-night-only special event featuring herring and cocktail and spirits pairings [...]

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New Catch Holland Herring Season starts at Russ & Daughters on June 8, 2010.
Sign up for the Russ & Daughters e-mail list to be the first to hear about the start of the season and our upcoming Herring Pairing event on June 15, 2010:
info (at) russanddaughters (dot) com

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– some are new customers, many are regulars, and still others have been coming to the shop for twice the number of years I’ve been alive. The conversations take place over or in front of the counter, in the course of slicing lox, filleting a herring, sharing a piece of babka, or talking on the [...]

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Celebrate the publication of Taschen’s New York tonight at Book Court in Brooklyn. Taschen’s beautiful guide book to hotels, restaurants, and shops in NYC features by Angelika Taschen, with photographs by Poul Ober and text by Daisann McLane.
Taschen’s New York
Book Court
September 29, 2009. 7:00 p.m.
163 Court Street, Brooklyn NY 11201  718.875.3677

- Jen Snow

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A team of two from the Russ & Daughters staff will compete in the August Sweat Out Ping Pong Classic tournament at Partners & Spade tomorrow!
On Saturday, August 29, local creative firm Partners & Spade will host a ping pong tournament in their smart Great Jones Street storefront and studio to celebrate the launch of [...]

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Russ & Daughters: A Taste of Appetizing | August 26, 2009
Astor Center | 399 Lafayette Street | NY, NY | 6:30 - 8:30 pm
For tickets: 212.674.7501 or order online at astorcenter.com
On Wednesday, August 26, 2009, Astor Center will host Russ & Daughters: A Taste of Appetizing, an intimate tasting that will span 100 years of [...]

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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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