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Why we’re all hooked on tinned fish

Sardines, mackerel, herring, pilchards, sprats and anchovies... canning only makes the umami flavour better. They’re my top choice for pasta Sign up here for our weekly food newsletter, Feast I can’t find it, despite having spent the past 35 minutes looking, but somewhere in the house is The Crisis Cook Book. It’s a standard paperback, postbox-red with white writing on the cover, and full of recipes from chefs includ

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#3472
First seen
27 Aug 2026, 12:31 UTC
Last checked
27 Aug 2026, 19:57 UTC
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Current fingerprint
7d51c288e45c...b2da87
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Publisher layer

Recorded article metadata

Publisher
The Guardian
Country
England / United Kingdom
Source published
27 Aug 2026, 12:10 UTC
Source updated
No update timestamp supplied
Byline
Rachel Roddy
Section
Food
Source-supplied excerpt
Sardines, mackerel, herring, pilchards, sprats and anchovies... canning only makes the umami flavour better. They’re my top choice for pasta Sign up here for our weekly food newsletter, Feast I can’t find it, despite having spent the past 35 minutes looking, but somewhere in the house is The Crisis Cook Book. It’s a standard paperback, postbox-red with white writing on the cover, and full of recipes from chefs includ
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    Why we’re all hooked on tinned fish

    Sardines, mackerel, herring, pilchards, sprats and anchovies... canning only makes the umami flavour better. They’re my top choice for pasta Sign up here for our weekly food newsletter, Feast I can’t find it, despite having spent the past 35 minutes looking, but somewhere in the house is The Crisis Cook Book. It’s a standard paperback, postbox-red with white writing on the cover, and full of recipes from chefs includ

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Publisher categories are copied from source metadata. Machine signals report observable wording or format and do not determine truth, intent, ethics, or wrongdoing.

  • machine content-type Reported news observable-rules-v1 / 70% rule confidence
  • publisher category Fish rss-category
  • publisher category Food rss-category
  • publisher category Main course rss-category
  • publisher category Seafood rss-category
  • publisher category Snacks rss-category
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Capture ID
#3136
Observed
27 Aug 2026, 12:31 UTC
HTTP result
200 / parsed
Raw payload
479,305 bytes, private gzip evidence
Collector
news-ledger/0.1
Public boundary
metadata and excerpt