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"Smoked foods almost always carry with them legends about their having been created by accident--usually the peasant hung the food too close to the fire, and then, imagine his surprise the next morning when ...". For instance Thomas Nashe wrote in 1599 about a fisherman from Lothingland in the Great Yarmouth area who discovered smoking herring by accident. Another story of the accidental invention of kipper is set in

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