With surströmming season in full swing, Nicola Foleher offers her advice for newcomers on how to approach their first taste of this smelly fish dish. Type "surströmming" into YouTube and you will be ...

It must have seemed like a good idea at the time. An American fan of the video sharing website Liveleak asked a fellow member, based in Finland, to send him a can of a traditional Scandinavian ...

As chef Malin Soderstrom opened the can, the trapped air escaped with a hiss and filled the balcony of her waterside restaurant with the pungent odour of Sweden's infamous delicacy, surstromming.

The surströmming season is back, and with it, a battle of taste buds. Ex-Londoner, Paul Connolly, and Skellefteå native, Akvelina Bergsten, share their vastly different opinions on the rather smelly ...

Surstromming, Swedish for sour herring, has a powerful stink thanks to food preservation. Surstromming, Swedish for sour herring, is legendary for its powerful stink. But it's all a result of the ...

People across different cultures have been using food preservation methods for centuries. But few preserved food can be quite as "stinky" as the fermented sour herring, also known as Surstromming in ...

The woman who vowed she'd taste anything, arthropods included, plans to draw the line at surströmming, fermented herring from northern Sweden with an aroma so pungent the locals compare it to "gas ...

A hush descends over a crowd gathered in the yard outside the Higashi-Nakano Civic Activity Center. The silence is broken only by the sound of camera shutters. Keisuke Nakanishi punctures the rim on a ...

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As chef Malin Soderstrom opened the can, the trapped air escaped with a hiss and filled the balcony of her waterside restaurant with the pungent odour of Sweden's infamous delicacy, surstromming.