Russ & Daughters: Reflections and Recipes from the House That Herring Built T Shirt Design historian Lisa Zeiger tells

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Russ & Daughters: Reflections and Recipes from the House That Herring Built T Shirt Design historian Lisa Zeiger tellsWhen Joel Russ started peddling herring from a barrel shortly after his arrival in America from Poland, he could not have imagined that he was giving birth to a gastronomic legend. Here is the story of this Louvre of lox (The Sunday Times, London): its humble beginnings, the struggle to keep it going during the Great Depression, the food rationing of World War II, the passing of the torch to the next generation as the flight from the Lower East Side