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sardine

It is nutritious, low on the food chain and sustainable, and it is priced as poverty food, which is mostly about what a tin signals rather than what is in it.

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Cultural layer

Origin

The Mediterranean and Atlantic; named for Sardinia, oily and small, eaten fresh where landed and canned everywhere else

Routes

Canning industrialised in nineteenth-century Brittany and Portugal, which made a perishable coastal fish into a global protein and built entire port economies on it

Context

The sardine can made a cheap fish into a world food and then took the industry away again when stocks moved and factories closed. Portuguese and Breton canning towns were built and emptied on this one fish. It is nutritious, low on the food chain and sustainable, and it is priced as poverty food, which is mostly about what a tin signals rather than what is in it.

Route

Pending

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