Canned herring is a beloved food in many parts of the world, but are you enjoying it to its max potential? To do so, avoid making these 10 mistakes.

In a fancy women’s department store in Osaka, Japan, earlier this year, shoppers lined up for one of the latest food fads in the country, jars of pickled herring.

The UW Fish Collection is a state-supported facility that houses more than 300,000 adult fish specimens. The jar on the left contains herring (Clupea pallasii) collected in 1952.

I bought a jar of herring at the supermarket. I was doing my holiday food shopping, so I bought a jar of pickled fish because Christmas is, as everyone says, the most herring-ful time of year. OK ...

Washington Post food writers recently answered questions from readers. Q. I’m not a big fan of herring (read: I really dislike it), but Mom buys a big jar whenever she’s in town and leaves ...

Sometimes fat chunks of pickled herring were wrapped around olives, onions, or pickles, in a preparation typically known as rollmops. As a Jewish kid in New Jersey, I grew up with a perpetual jar of ...

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While herring from a jar can be overly pickled or slimy, homemade herring is delicate and sublime. So, it’s time to bring herring back — DIY style. But first, ...

Straight outta the herring jar. Since pickled herring is already a perfectly balanced food, all you really need is a fork, and something with which to wash it down. So eat, drink, and be herring.

Kim Wall, owner of Ma Baensch Foods, 1025 E. Locust St., bought a pickled herring business in July 1999 directly from the Baensch family. Since then, the product has attracted many new consumers.