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:
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With Labor Day behind us, we welcome a new and exciting season for all. It was a busy summer for us at Russ & Daughters. Our first annual Russ & Daughters Herring Festival in June was a great success. If you missed the event, you can read Oliver Sacks’ fabulous “Talk of Town” piece in [...]

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Paper Magazine’s Carol Lee stopped by to “rip up a herring,” or a few herring, actually, with us.
Some of our older customers had taught me that when they were young, it was quite common to ask someone out to “rip up a herring.” The phrase indicated a  sort of joyous sharing, like “breaking bread.” I [...]

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In The New York Times article “Herring Return to the City, With Sex In Mind“  Joseph Berger writes, “Herring have found their way back to the Bronx — bound not for fish lovers’ plates, but for a clean, cool place to deposit the next generation.”
Berger reports on the work of New York City parks officials [...]

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The Universal Record Database is a fantastic endeavor to document a lot of very important and very unique records. They say, “What world record are you capable of setting? We believe every person on earth has potential to be the world’s best ’something’. URDB’s mission is to become the database where all such achievements will [...]

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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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In the current issue of Gourmet Magazine‘s weekly newsletter, Editor In Chief Ruth Reichl writes lovingly of herring’s special meaning in her family, and she talks specifically about the New Catch Holland Herring.
Reichl’s anecdote about her parents is tender and touching, and her description of the taste of these prized herring is perfect too:

“My father [...]

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In this week’s New York Magazine, Rob Patronite and Robin Raisfeld note the New Catch Holland Herring in their “In Season” feature. Note the fantastic illustration of the 3 steps of eating the New Catch in the most traditional way at the Russ & Daughters counter.

- Jen Snow

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2009’s New Catch Holland Herring Season begins today. Join us for the New Catch at the counter at Russ & Daughters from 8:00 a.m. until 8:00 p.m.
- Jen Snow

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